How do animals know where they’re going?

Tai Asks Why

CBC

Kids & Family

4.2 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We know birds can travel large distances day or night, rain or shine, even if they’ve never migrated before. If you confuse a spiny lobster and drop it far from home, it can still find its way back. How do they do that? In this episode, Tai discovers the mysterious and mind-boggling ways animals navigate. In this episode Tai talks to: - David Barrie, researcher and author of Supernavigators: Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way - Ken Lohmann, biology professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Samantha Patrick, senior lecturer in marine biology at the University of Liverpool For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/tai-asks-why-transcripts-listen-1.6747759

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0:00.0	So I'm supposed to be looking for a large pond about to cross a bridge.
0:12.9	The weather, it's hot and clear.
0:17.1	I'm going to just get lost and eventually end up finding the treasure someday.
0:23.0	Okay, so you might be wondering why on earth I was out on a swell
0:29.8	terrain hot day, wandering around a park in Toronto, searching for treasure?
0:35.9	Well, I was just trying to see just how good my navigation skills are.
0:40.4	I feel like I've always had a pretty good sense of direction.
0:44.3	I mean, I can point to the nearest 7-Eleven no problem, and
0:48.4	this one time with my mom in Korea, I found a way back to our hotel
0:52.5	through the complicated subway line, and I can't even read Korean.
0:57.5	But this? Well, oh man, I was struggling.
1:04.0	So right now I'm heading northwest until you reach a pungent lagoon.
1:07.1	Oh, gross. I don't want to go to a poop lagoon.
1:11.2	I am going in the wrong direction.
1:13.4	I'm going to get myself lost.
1:14.8	My producer has had given me a compass in a set of instructions that were
1:19.2	definitely not in any way confusing.
1:22.1	Head north, very slightly northwest until you reach a lagoon.
1:26.4	Head west to a meadow, stuff like that, right?
1:30.0	All to find this fallen tree with some very valuable treasure.
1:35.4	A big bag of Doritos, and you guys know how much I love Doritos.
1:41.4	How am I still going north?
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