{"id":27602,"date":"2013-10-21T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=27602"},"modified":"2013-10-18T17:30:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T21:30:08","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-birds-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2013\/uncommon-knowledge-birds-gps\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Do birds use GPS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/latitude-longitude-cufflinks?source=blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/23991_zoom1.jpg\" alt=\"Custom Latitude Longitude Cufflinks | UncommonGoods\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/23991_zoom1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/23991_zoom1-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/23991_zoom1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/23991_zoom1-45x45.jpg 45w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/23991_zoom1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Migrating birds make some extraordinary journeys\u2014up to 40,000 miles round trip, in the case of the arctic tern. How do they know where they\u2019re going on such a long flight? They don\u2019t have satellite directions, but they may in fact have a more efficient global positioning system: the earth\u2019s magnetic fields. There are specialized compounds in the eyes, brains, and even the bills of migrating birds that help them sense those invisible forces, giving them a built in compass. Not only that, scientists have recently hypothesized that these birds take advantage of \u201cquantum entanglement,\u201d an effect where molecules are mysterious linked together, no matter how far apart they are. Specifically, they are studying a molecule in avian eyes called <i>cryptochrome<\/i>. It\u2019s possible that the quantum entanglement of that molecule may allow birds to actually see earth\u2019s magnetic fields in color, giving them intangible landmarks by which to navigate, and making a true \u201cbird\u2019s eye view\u201d something that we humans may never comprehend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/latitude-longitude-cufflinks?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\">Latitude Longitude Cufflinks, $175<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migrating birds make some extraordinary journeys\u2014up to 40,000 miles round trip, in the case of the arctic tern. How do they know where they\u2019re going on such a long flight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":27604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}