Mammals—and particularly two of the species of mammals that humans love best:       dogs and cats—have a range of ways to get around. Dogs, no surprise, are very big on scent, and that can take them a very long way.

“An eleven-mile distance is actually not terribly long for a dog,” says Bonnie Beaver, the executive director of the American College of Veterinary Behaviorists and a professor at Texas A&M University. “If the dog had walked both from and back to his home he’d be following his own scent trail.” In this case, the dog was instead probably following an equally compelling smell: that of its owner, a type of navigation that is entirely possible over long distances as long as the wind is right.

Dogs extend their scent range by moving among overlapping circles of familiar scents—much the way cell phone coverage relies on interconnected footprints from different cell towers. A dog that wanders out of its own immediate range might pick         up the scent of, say, a familiar dog in the next circle.  That might point it to a circle         that contains a familiar person or tree or restaurant trash can, and so on.

Cats, like other animals, might rely more on magnetic fields—a faculty that could turn     out to be quite common in mammals. “There are some studies that show that the ears       of most mammals contain iron, ” Beaver says.  “That may cue them into the magnetic direction in the ground. There’s work showing that cattle, deer and voles tend to orient     in a north-south direction.”

The overall temperament of an animal—or, more broadly, of the species—can play a       role in navigation too. A dog that travels a great distance to get home is likely trying to return to its owner, since the dog-human bond is a powerful one. A cat that travels the same distance is—sorry cat owners—probably just tying to return to its territory.

No matter how well animals navigate, scientists caution against an observation bias       that may make them seem better than they are. A dog or cat that finds its way halfway across the state makes news; the uncounted others that stay lost do not. What’s more, some cases of remarkable returns may turn out to be matters of mistaken identity,     unless there’s a positive way to identify an animal like an implanted microchip that     some owners use along with a collar.

“You hear these stories about a three-legged black cat that came home and jumped into   its favorite chair,” says Beaver. “But it’s real hard to be sure because they’ve been gone a long time and they look scruffy. And heck, that chair would be a comfortable one for any cat.”

Still, we shouldn’t dismiss all the stories out of hand. That cat that traveled 200 miles  in 2013? It did have an implanted microchip. So kudos to at least one kitty—and probably a whole lot more.

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When I read your comment I immediately recalled this article about an experiment       that designed tone discrimination circuits  on  FPGAs  by  stochastic processes (genetic algorithm). The highlight is at the end of thousands of rounds of controlled evolution, the researchers obtained  a circuit that achieved unexpected efficiency  through  mechanisms they initially failed to explain. There were closed circuits within the overall structure which only interacted with the main structure passively. Its design was the product of its unique electro-magnetic environment to the extent that results could not be replicated on another board of the same type.

In other words, a circuit appeared to originate with properties that would not have been arrived at by applying the conventional theory of circuit design.