Earth's Magnetic Field and Inherited Internal Map Make Juvenile Chinook Salmon to Find Ways to Ancestral Feeding Grounds

With the help of Earth's magnetic field and an inherited internal map, juvenile Chinook salmon are able to find ancestral feeding grounds, reveals a study by Oregon State University.

Earth's Magnetic Field and Inherited Internal Map Make Juvenile Chinook Salmon to Find Ways to Ancestral Feeding Grounds Earlier, it was considered that only loggerhead sea turtles are the ones that have the ability of ancestral migration routes from the time they hatch. But the new research has found juvenile Chinook salmon also possess a sense of direction to their families' migration routes.

An experiment was carried out to test the internal maps of juvenile salmon. For the same, hundreds of juvenile salmon were placed in test tanks and they were given about 10 minutes to get familiar with the environment.

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