Scientists find secret to how birds navigate

[Supreme Cmdr]

After reading this, I think I need to have a word with that hawk in my backyard.

[LostInSpace]

I've read about that some time ago from other sources as well as the use of magnitite in cells. It's probably a combination of both.

"magnetite-maghemite crystals

Magnetite is a black mineral form of iron oxide that crystallizes in the cubic or isometric system, namely all crystals which have their crystallographic axes of equal length at 90 degrees to each other. it is mixed iron(II),iron(III)oxide and Fe3O4, and is one of the major ores of iron that is strongly magnetic. magnetite crystals are in a linear, membrane-bound chains a few micrometers in length, with up to 80 crystals per chain all the magnetite crystals that have been examined to date are single magnetic domains, which means that they are uniformly and stably magnetized and have the maximum magnetic moment per volume possible formagnetite they are generally well organized and show that there is a strict biological control. Ferromagnetic crystals interact more then a million times more strongly with external magnetic fields then do diamagnetic or paramagnetic materials researchers have also found out that the magnetite is prodiced by the cells of the organism when needed. Forms of advanced physical intelligence can directly tap into this information if they have a crstalline network within their brain activity magnitite has been found in animals that navigate by compass direction, like bees, birds and fish. The piezoelectric effect refers to that property of matter which may convert electromagnetic oscillations into mechanicl vibrations and visa vie stress is converted into an electrical signal. researchers have found that bone is an LED that required an outside source of light before an electric current wouldmake it release its own light, and the light it emitted was at the infrared frequency invisible to us, but consistent. with the use of an applied current of a few microamperes regeneration of the spinal cord, optic nerve and bone has been demonstrated and naturally generated electric currents have been linked to changes in developing embryos and in regenerating limbs Coetzee H Biomagnetism and bio-electromagnetism"