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It has long been known that amphipods living on sandy shores use a sky compass (the sun or moon) to find their way back to the damp belt of the splash zone (Pardi and Papi, 1952, 1953; Papi and Pardi, 1953). It has also been proved that the mechanism governing solar orientation in mediterranean sandhoppers is innate, and that these sandhoppers inherit the ability to assume a specific escape direction perpendicular to their own particular shore (Pardi et al., 1958; Pardi, 1960; see also Pardi and Ercolini, 1986 for a review).
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Ugolini, A., Scapini, F., Beugnon, G., Pardi, L. (1988). Learning in Zonal Orientation of Sandhoppers. In: Chelazzi, G., Vannini, M. (eds) Behavioral Adaptation to Intertidal Life. NATO ASI Series, vol 151. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3737-7_9
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