多选题 A mysterious phenomenon is the ability of over-water migrants to travel on course. Birds, bees, and other species can keep track of time without any sensory cues from the outside world, and such "biological clocks" clearly contribute to their "compass sense". For example, they can use the position of the Sun or stars, along with the time of day, to find north. But compass sense alone cannot explain how birds navigate the ocean: after a flock traveling east is blown far south by a storm, it will assume the proper northeasterly course to compensate. Perhaps, some scientists thought, migrants determine their {{U}}geographic position on Earth by celestial navigation{{/U}}, almost as human navigators use stars and planets, {{U}}but this would demand of the animals a fantastic map sense.{{/U}} Researchers now know that some species have a magnetic sense, which might allow migrants to determine their geographic location by detecting variations in the strength of the Earth's magnetic field.
In maintaining that migrating animals would need "a fantastic map sense" to determine their geographic position by celestial navigation, the author intends to express

• A. admiration for the ability of the migrants.
• B. skepticism about celestial navigation as an explanation.
• C. certainty that the phenomenon of migration will remain mysterious.
• D. interest in a new method of accounting for over-water migration.
• E. surprise that animals apparently navigate in much the same way that human beings do.