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Fox, the film keeps the same basic story line, but adds a subplot in which the kids are dealing with a new step-family. All in all, though, I found Supernavigators to be a fun and highly readable overview of the many ways animals (including humans) navigate. I realize that I am being mammal centric here but it is a book review, and I think for the average reader the bugs and birds should be a third. SUPERNAVIGATORS is an exploration of the wonders of animal navigation, and it explains what we now know about how animals find their way around.
The only small complaint i have about the book is that it felt more like a compilation of short articles.I have so far studiously avoided mentioning the two bigger topics that take up quite a bit of space in this book: bird navigation and the role of Earth’s magnetic field.
The turtle navigates home instinctively but despite all the experiments and analysis and conjecture about whether they use smell , the earth's magnetic field , the milky way or astronomy , the navigational skills of some animals let alone why they embark on their journeys in the first place remains a complete mystery . For example, the chapter about cognitive maps and the role of the hippocampus in humans ends with scent based navigation in elephants.Peter mourns for Bodger, who is not there, but then notices the old dog slowly approaching from far behind the others. I was struck by the devastation of colonization on their cultures and how it negatively affected their survival and coping skills. This beautiful book allows us to walk alongside real-life explorer Levison Wood to travel around the world, meeting some of history's most daring pioneers, and be inspired to go on our very own adventures!
This is specially true in current times when increasingly with the advent of modern technology we are losing the sense of biological senses. Some of the scientific methods seem awful to modern eyes, but the incredible ingenuity and persistence of the animals in question continuously shines through. It is packed with amazing discoveries, and raises important questions about our own place in the world - now that we rely so heavily on our electronic gadgets to tell us where we are. Magnetoreception remains a mysterious topic so far: clearly, animals can navigate using geomagnetism, but a well-defined sense organ is not obviously present. I admit I enjoyed reading about the honeybee, whale, deer and sea turtles more than the ant, dung beetle and moths.This wonderful popular science book explores the remarkable diversity of strategies they employ to find their way. If you have a particular love for lepidoptera, then you'll be delighted to find not just monarch butterflies here, but painted ladies too, along with silver 'Y' and bogong moths.
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