Cryptic sense of orientation of bats localised: the sixth sense of mammals lies in the eye

(Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW)) Mammals see with their eyes, hear with their ears and smell with their nose. But which sense or organ allows them to orient themselves on their migrations, which sometimes go far beyond their local foraging areas and therefore require an extended ability to navigate? Scientific experiments led by the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) ) now show that the cornea of the eyes is the location of such an important sens...