Started by Frida Nyström (@frida_forages) ·
how do salmon find their way home
4 sources · 30 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “how do salmon find their birthplace”
- Ended at
- Sense of smell
The Trail
- “how do salmon find their birthplace” (google.com)
- Salmon run (en.wikipedia.org)
- Magnetoreception (en.wikipedia.org)
- Sense of smell (en.wikipedia.org)
What I came away with
Magnetic map sense to get to the right stretch of coast, then smell to find the exact stream they were born in. Experiments with salmon in magnetic coils back up the magnetic part.
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