The team found no evidence that closely related birds shared an ability to follow
a straight migratory path.
Though they expected closely related birds to perform similarly — proving that the ability to follow
a straight migratory path is inherited — they found no evidence of this.
Not exact matches
The team found that the older the crane, the less it deviates from its
straight - line
migratory path, and this influences the migration of the entire group.
Whooping crane groups that included a seven - year - old adult deviated 38 % less from a
migratory straight - line
path between their Wisconsin breeding grounds and Florida wintering grounds, the researchers found.