Apr 30 2012  Bird navigation  There have been some interesting
developments in learning how birds navigate. It was thought that
birds had tiny chunks of metal in their beaks or inner ears that
enabled them to detect the direction of the Earth’s magnetic
field. But more research has thrown doubt on the existence of
these so-called ‘compass cells’, saying that they were just a
type of white blood cells.  Now a new article in the journal
Science suggests that birds have clusters of certain cells
dubbed ‘GPS neurons’ in their brains that enable them to
navigate.      There’s more about this here.   Skip to comment
form    1. 1       How did they launch the satellites?      1.
1.1        They were sent up long ago by shuttlelaunchiraptors.
2. 2     Jared A       Can you imagine not only being able to
experience north and south as directions, but be able to “feel”
your location like that?    3. 3      I’m having trouble
imagining that, it’s completely alien to the senses we’re used
to. Kinda like trying to imagi