Editing Animal cognition (section)

====Long-distance navigation; homing====

{{main|Animal navigation}}
Many animals travel hundreds or thousands of miles in seasonal migrations or returns to breeding grounds. They may be guided by the Sun, the stars, the polarization of light, magnetic cues, olfactory cues, winds, or a combination of these.<ref>{{cite book | last = Gauthreaux | first = Sidney A. | name-list-style = vanc | date = 1980 | title = Animal Migration, Orientation, and Navigation | publisher = Academic Press}}</ref> 

It has been hypothesized that animals such as apes and wolves are good at spatial cognition because this skill is necessary for survival. Some researchers argue that this ability may have diminished somewhat in dogs because humans have provided necessities such as food and shelter during some 15,000 years of domestication.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Savolainen P, Zhang YP, Luo J, Lundeberg J, Leitner T | title = Genetic evidence for an East Asian origin of domestic dogs | journal = Science | volume = 298 | issue = 5598 | pages = 1610–3 | date = November 2002 | pmid = 12446907 | doi = 10.1126/science.1073906 | bibcode = 2002Sci...298.1610S | s2cid = 32583311}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Fiset S, Plourde V | title = Object permanence in domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and gray wolves (Canis lupus) | journal = Journal of Comparative Psychology | volume = 127 | issue = 2 | pages = 115–27 | date = May 2013 | pmid = 23106804 | doi = 10.1037/a0030595}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Bräuer J, Kaminski J, Riedel J, Call J, Tomasello M | title = Making inferences about the location of hidden food: social dog, causal ape | journal = Journal of Comparative Psychology | volume = 120 | issue = 1 | pages = 38–47 | date = February 2006 | pmid = 16551163 | doi = 10.1037/0735-7036.120.1.38 | s2cid = 10162449}}</ref>