A Brief History of Scientific Inquiry into the Homing Problem
“But as to how memory of home can direct innately the journeys of animals, we have no answer. It is a question with which science has struggled manfully. It is a question as profound as any which biology faces today, for within its unknown answer must lie qualities and properties and potentialities of which we have no least knowledge.” – Robert Ardrey – The Territorial Imperative (1966) Why Birds? After half a year of being too busy/uninspired to post anything…