It is a finely built boat designed for
long-distance navigation made without the use of blueprints and was taught to be made from one generation to another using an ancient technique that has been preserved and is still employed by boat makers of Sibutu island.
Among the topics are DNA damage and repair in vascular disease, the neural basis of
long-distance navigation in birds, cortico-basal ganglia circuit function in psychiatric disease, and vascular growth factors and glomerular disease.
Since
long-distance navigation and landmarks played so critical a role in this mission, a map or two may have helped the reader visualize its scope and scale.
He added: "For
long-distance navigation and doing a journey the first time, they will use their in-built compasses and take sun and star bearings.
''For
long-distance navigation and birds doing a journey for the first time, they will use the in-built compasses and take sun and star bearings.
Long-distance navigation encompasses a wide range of animal movements, from the circumglobal migrations of the arctic tern to the return flights to the nest of homing pigeons, covering tens to hundreds of kilometers (Able, 1996).