Bats use polarized light to navigate: First mammal known to use polarization patterns in the sky to navigate

22 julio 2014

The bats use the way the sun’s light is scattered in the atmosphere at sunset to calibrate their internal magnetic compass, which helps them to fly in the right direction, a new study has shown.
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