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Bird migrations work through a combination of photoperiod-triggered hormonal changes, sun and star compasses, and magnetoreception — a quantum-mechanical ability to sense Earth's magnetic field using cryptochrome proteins in the eye. These overlapping systems let birds navigate thousands of kilometers with precision that rivals GPS, while extreme fat metabolism powers nonstop flights lasting more than 11 days.

Animals go extinct when a species can no longer reproduce fast enough to offset deaths — driven by habitat loss, overexploitation, invasive species, and climate change. Today's extinction rate is 100 to 1,000 times higher than the natural background rate, putting roughly one million species at risk.