How do pets navigate

6 Minute English

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2017-07-13

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  • 6 Minute English from BBCLearningEnglish.com Welcome to Six Minute English, the program where we bring you an interesting topic and six useful words or phrases, I'm Neil.

  • And I'm Dan.

  • Today we're talking about one of the last mysteries of science.

  • No, not if the universe will keep expanding forever, but this.

  • How did cats and dogs find their way home over long distances?

  • Hmm, we hear incredible stories of lost pets,

  • travelling tens and even hundreds of miles home.

  • But scientists struggle to explain how they do it.

  • We'll hear the view of one scientist today,

  • but before that I have to ask an important question.

  • Neil, are you a cat person or a dog person?

  • Oh, that's easy.

  • I'm a cat person for sure.

  • Dogs are just, uh, well they're hard work aren't they?

  • If you say you're a cat person, it means you prefer cats.

  • A coffee person prefers coffee.

  • A something person likes or prefers that thing,

  • often over another thing.