Doves are renowned for their ability to find their way home even after they are transported tens or hundreds of kilometers away.
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Letter pigeons and other migratory birds fly hundreds of kilometers and still find their destination. The special sense of orientation of the animals has always fascinated humans. Now an interdisciplinary team of immunologists, physicists and ornithologists has examined the navigational abilities of pigeons more closely and found a connection between iron-producing immune cells in the liver and the earth's magnetic field. How pigeons use their "…