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THE MIRACLE OF MIGRATION IN ANIMALS
insects have invented and applied on their own. With God’s inspira-
tion, every member of this species, without exception, manages to
perform successfully a task that many people, given the same condi-
tions, would find impossible.
The creatures in question cannot have learned these skills over
time, for many species of animal can travel unerringly towards the
most suitable habitat as soon as they are born. It is remarkable, for in-
stance, that newly-hatched sea turtles, know the way to the ocean and
move towards it. The hatchlings emerge from their underground
nests at night and head directly for the water to reach their feeding
grounds. Not even one of them loses its way on the shore and goes in
the wrong direction, because the stars and Moon make the sea more
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