Do subterranean mammals use the Earth's magnetic field as a heading indicator to dig straight tunnels?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5819" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5819</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5819" target="_blank" >10.7717/peerj.5819</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Do subterranean mammals use the Earth's magnetic field as a heading indicator to dig straight tunnels?

Original language description

Subterranean rodents are able to dig long straight tunnels. Keeping the course of such runways is important in the context of optimal foraging strategies and natal or mating dispersal. These tunnels are built in the course of a long time, and in social species, by several animals. Although the ability to keep the course of digging has already been described in the 1950s, its proximate mechanism could still not be satisfactorily explained. Here, we analyzed the directional orientation of 68 burrow systems in five subterranean rodent species (Fukomys anselli, F. mechowii, Heliophobius argenteocinereus, Spalax galili, and Ctenomys talarum) on the base of detailed maps of burrow systems charted within the framework of other studies and provided to us. The directional orientation of the vast majority of all evaluated burrow systems on the individual level (94%) showed a significant deviation from a random distribution. The second order statistics (averaging mean vectors of all the studied burrow systems o

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10614 - Behavioral sciences biology

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PeerJ

ISSN

2167-8359

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

OCT2018

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1-15

UT code for WoS article

000448856900006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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