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stress efficiency Researchers are looking at ways all kinds of
animals find their way home. A couple from West Palm Beach,
Fla., lost their cat in Daytona Beach in November, only to have
the animal show up two months later less than a mile from their
house. The cat had apparently walked 200 miles. An Australian
cat reportedly traveled 1,000 miles over the course of a year to
get home. Bobbie the Wonder Dog was a minor celebrity in the
1920s after walking home to Oregon from Indiana. A Labrador
named Buck traveled 500 miles from Winchester, Va., to Myrtle
Beach, S.C., last year. How do animals find their way home from
such great distances? “Rats and d