lobsters navigate home

Spiny lobsters have an uncanny ability to find their way home, even after being blindfolded, driven in circles and plunked in familiar water, states canada national Post newspaper.The researchers captured dozens of lobsters off them florida keys, places them in dark tanks and released them up to 37km from where they were caught. Thought their eyes were covered,the lobsters always gravitated towards their place of capture.The researcher suggest that this is the most advanced form of navigation yet found in an invertebrete. "No matter what we did,the lobsters fiigured out the direction that they needed to walk in order to go back home",its really a rather temarkable findings if you think about it