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Definition of homing instinct in English: homing instinctnoun An animal's innate ability to return to its territory after travelling away from it. scientists report that some garden snails have a homing instinct Example sentencesExamples - The relocation operation relies on the birds' excellent natural homing instinct, which compels them to return to the site where they hatched.
- Because both are anadromous species with weak homing instincts, they colonized coastal streams far from the original points of introduction.
- Over generations of grazing on the same land, the flock has developed a homing instinct, which means that they do not stray from their pastures.
- His homing instinct was strong, and he struggled onward.
- The homing instinct of stem cells has been exploited in animal experiments to deliver a 'suicide gene' to tumour cells, leaving normal tissues unharmed.
- On the edges of the old city a few foxes lope, a few late drinkers follow their homing instinct.
- All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
- The sport of pigeon racing is built around a central mystery: the strange homing instinct of the pigeon.
- The latest animal to display an extraordinary homing instinct is Basil, the Welsh cob.
- Nobody knows for certain why birds react in this way and why they have a homing instinct.
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