Science: The Physics of Pigeons

How does a homing pigeon navigate, often over hundreds os miles os territory has never seen before? Professor ( of phisics) Henry L. Yeagley of Penneylvania Ste College thinks he has found the pigeony secret. Last week, on General Eletric's Science Forumn broadcast, he described the pingeon experiments he has been doing for the Army  Signal Corps.
Yeagley began with idea, not original with him, that a homing pigeon equipped with  some sort of " magnetic compasses", i.e, some sensitivity to the earth's magnetism. Yeagley tested this notion fasteing small...

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,887618,00.html

How did you like reading? Why? I like that text, because I watched one movie that week talk about magnetism and in the movie showed the pigeons disoriented the lack of an eletromagnetic field. The movie is The Core   


new words:


broadcast = difundir

described  = descrito

Pigeons = pombos