Lost: on what level should we aim to understand animal navigation?

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Given that all interactions between an animal and its environment are mediated by movement, questions of how animals inherit, refine and execute trajectories through space are fundamental to our understanding of biology. As with any behavioural trait, navigation can be thought of on many conceptual levels - from the mechanistic to the functional, and from the static to the dynamic - as laid out by Niko Tinbergen...

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