February 12, 2025
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The amazing importance of this adorable sea turtle
Sea turtles are able to create magnetic maps such as GPS maps, driving farmers, and do a small dance when they know these places
Loggerhead tortoise hatchling.
Loggerhead Sea turtles for young people, squid could be tasty. When they feel food, nor when they think they may be close, these reptiles are excited to dance. They bend the head to the surface, open the mouth and flip face flip flops, swimming with a dog dog. Sometimes they twist the top.
Researchers recently used this distinctive behavior in order to identify specific magnetic signatures that registrators ate in the past. Results, posted on Wednesday Nature, reveal these rambuntios When they find dance magnetic conditions related to food.
According to the guidance of the research, Kayla Goforth, a marine biologist at Texas A & M University, show that findings are capable of learning magnetic signatures of certain locations in certain locations. This helps them create a magnetic map similar to a GPS, he says.
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Loggerheads and sea turtles are famous for their epic migration, where they do thousands of miles, but they never lose or where they go. Many sea turtles return to a few years for years, and the females often return to put the eggs into its own equal beaches.
Scientists have known for decades he Sea turtles use the magnetic field of the Earth As if they had a comprehensive magnetic compass in certain directions. But when you return accurately to a specific location, it requires not only the direction they are traveling, but also specific directions. Some scientists have theorized that sea turtles are able to learn accurate magnetic coordinates for the nesting forgal reasons and beaches.
Placing the idea that I can create mental mental mental map of the important test locations, GOFORTH and his colleagues have collected several Loggerhead Hockings In a North Carolina Island. (The turtle returned to the wild summer.) In the lab, the turtle fell into a mugnetic coil system; Running an electric current through the system in the bowl created a magnetic field. Scientists calibrated these areas to repeat various local magnetic conditions along the eastern seaside, such as the places in the Gulf of Mexico or Maine coast.
Each young loggile was facing two different magnetic fields. Period of the two-month setting, the turtles gave the same amount of time in each field, but only one of them were fed. Then, in the experimental tests made several consecutive days, the team created two magnetic fields, but he did not feed the tortoise.
Loggerhead sea turtle responding to the magnetic signature of a place associated with “dance” food.
Gofth et al., Nature (2025)
Scientists were found, although there were food, the sea turtles showed dance behavior when they met with magnetic conditions related to past foods. This helps these animals can learn magnetic coordinates of exclusion locations. It has also been similar ability viewed in salmon Food while they go to ocean reasons. (Dancing Why Dance, Goforth said “Being really excited when you are giving such food”)
To determine whether loggerheads are maintained for a long time, the researchers tested the tortoise again after several months without returning to two magnetic fields. And the animals still danced when they met with magnetic conditions related to food.
According to GFTT, these turtles probably can also remember magnetic coordinates or decades. “In the desert, they adhere to the feeding of information to the adult hat, which is 20 years of time,” he explains.
Jeanette Wynek’s sea turtle studies at the Atlantic Sea turtle, but it was not involved in the new paper, says geomagnetic coordinates emphasizes learning skills how to grow the crucial food sources of sea turtles. “It is very important that the sea turtles have to be outgrow the hoses as soon as possible,” he explained. “(Turtles) must effectively place food to increase their development and increase the chances of survival.”
Goforth and his colleagues also wanted to determine the capabilities of magnetic maps of sea turtles related to their magnetic compass. The researchers performed similar experiments, but they added radiofrequency waves, which interrupted the ability to guide animals through magnetic fields. Turtles can still recognize accurate magnetic coordinates.
The findings suggest that sea turtle has two different senses to detect magnetic fields. The work of the past suggests that the songs and news also have double magnetorzio systems. Birds and amphibians are related to sea turtles, GFTH and his colleagues, think that magnetic compases and maps can be common common features in the vertebrate toolbox.
