Mind-blowing episode of Radiolab. TLDR; we always knew that birds navigate by the earth's magnetic field. But how? Quantum mechanics in the eyeball allow them to see an overlay of earth's incredibly weak magnetic fields. Cosmic entanglement.

https://radiolab.org/podcast/quantum-birds

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