BLIND mole rats make up for their lack of sight and poor hearing with a
“sixth sense”, says Tali Kimchi of Tel Aviv University in Israel.
Kimchi trained mole rats to reach a goal at the end of a labyrinth. The rats
went through their paces again, but this time half of them had to navigate the
labyrinth when the magnetic field was reversed by a pair of electromagnetic
coils. This group took far longer to reach their goal and made more mistakes
(The Journal of Experimental Biology, vol 204, p 751). Earlier work by
other researchers had suggested…
