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October 22, 2004
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The turtles were placed into cloth harnesses and tethered to limit their travel.
The turtles were placed into cloth harnesses and tethered to limit their travel and to enable researchers to monitor the direction of their swimming. "Turtles could view the sky, but were restricted to the center of the coil where the magnetic field was uniform," the researchers reported.
Credit: Ken Lohmann, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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