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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - Ehud Rattner
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They may not be on most people's list of most attractive species, but bats definitely have animal magnetism. Researchers from the Universities of Leeds and Princeton have discovered that bats use a magnetic substance in their body called magnetite as an 'internal compass'...    (source: plosone.org)


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