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Thermal noise holds the pigeon's proposed ear compass to 0.15 bits per second
Daniel Kattnig modelled a semicircular canal under the conditions most favourable to electromagnetic induction and found the bird's own thermal fluctuations leave a directional signal far too slow to steer by.
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