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How do jellyfish navigate?
« on: 28/04/2011 18:29:36 »
At just one centimetre across, the box jellyfish makes a poor contender for being a paragon of intellect. But now new research has show that these tiny creatures can actually navigate by following the outlines of objects in the sky above them.

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How do jellyfish navigate?
« Reply #1 on: 29/04/2011 07:14:41 »
Don't they have JPS?
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