Successful Salmon Homing Requires Both Olfactory Imprinting, Geomagnetic Navigation

Adult salmon returning to the Columbia River from the northern reaches of the Pacific Ocean to spawn use built-in geomagnetic orientation to find and return to the river’s plume and mouth, and then mostly follow olfactory cues to their spawning grounds.

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