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Monday 29th June, 2009
Cartoon
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Researchers have discovered that like global positioning technology, homing
pigeons first determine where they are before heading off for home
Homing pigeons
have ‘satnav’
H
oming pigeons have inbuilt
‘satnav’ that uses Earth’s
magnetic field to pinpoint
position and help them find their
way home, according to a study.
Scientists have suspected for
years that birds possess the ability
to use the Earth’s magnetic field
for their navigation, although it
has never been proved beyond
doubt.
Now researchers from the
University of Auckland in New
Zealand believe they have solved
the mystery by showing that the
routes the birds take to come back
follow magnetic waves around the
Earth.
They have discovered that like
global positioning technology, they
first determine where they are
before heading off for home.
One of the quirks of homing
pigeons is that they often head off
in totally the wrong direction
when initially finding their way
home before making a correction.
Now the team, who published
their findings in the journal
Proceedings of the Royal Society
B, have discovered that the initial
flight path involves finding the
magnetic waves which can then be
used to find their way home.
Shantha
Wijewardana
wo cartoon films,
based on popular folk
tales, was launched in
a DVD format recently.
Besides the 130-minute
cartoon stories, the DVD,
titled ‘Seeyage Katha,’ also
contains the stories behind
the scene as to how the significant creation was made.
Director, Shantha
Wijewardana, who was
responsible for the whole
episode said he had given the
DVD the best possible technical treatment and added that
this came as a result of hard
work of more than five
years.
Hiran Wickremanayake
produced the DVD, while
Jayantha Rathnayake composed the music, Bandara
Eheliyagoda did the lyrics,
Ravindra Yasas, Jayantha
Rathnayake and Shyamali
Livera handled the vocals,
and dubbing by Wijeratne
Warakagoda, Ramya
Wanigasekara, Ulapane
Gunasekara, Hilarion
Perera, Shaminda
Priyawiraj, Suneth
T
Chitrananda, Dharmapriya
Dias, Athula Jayasinghe,
Dhanushka Waidyasekara,
Wasanthi Ranwala, Shyamali
Livera, Malkanthi
Jayasinghe and others
including child artistes.
Animated by Sanjeewa
Gunaratne.
An exhibition of photographs by
Robert Doisneau (One of the most
prominent French photographers of
the 20th century) will be held from 3rd
to 23rd July at the Alliance Française
Auditorium, Colombo 07.
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They reviewed a number of
studies in Germany that saw as
many 150 birds returning to three
lofts near Frankfurt.
Dr Cordula Mora and her colleagues concluded that “respond to
the Earth’s magnetic field at the
release site”, calculate their position using the fields and then calculate their way home.
“Our results imply that pigeons
use the earth’s magnetic field for
determining their position at the
release site before laying a course
for home,” she said.
The study extends previous
research that suggested that magnetic particles in the beaks of the
birds act like compasses.
They react to the Earth’s external magnetic field in a very sensitive and specific manner, so they
can deduce location, the team
believes.
The researchers further believe
that this ability is not unique to
homing pigeons and could be universal among all birds and may
also be present in other animals
influenced by the Earth’s magnetic
field.
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