Non-human Cartography: the Map Lichen (Rhizocarpon geographicum)
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Non-human Cartography: the so-called crown-shyness (or intercrown spacing) could be seen as a map-like striation of space, as a sort of territorialization
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Non-human Cartography: Birds' mosaic and gradient maps (from P. Berthold, 'Orientation in Birds', Basel 1991, p. 140)
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'Squirrels highways' by Denis Wood. 'Nervous squirrels, afraid of an attack on the ground, use the phone and television cables as highways wherever the tree canopy’s broken' (From Denis Wood's 'Evrithing Sings. Maps for a Narrative Atlas', 2010, pp. 36-37)
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Honey bees navigate according to a map-like spatial memory: 'Bees can set course at any arbitrary location in their familiar area, and they can choose between at least two goals' as Zoologist Randolf Menzel and his team found out pnas.org/content/pnas/1
