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n. (context biology English) The inherent ability or innate instinct of certain animals to return home, after being released (sometimes from great distances).
Usage examples of "homing instinct".
Through some kind of nerdish homing instinct he finds Akihabara, the electronics district, and spends a while wandering through stores looking at all of the consumer electronics that will go on sale in the States a year from now.
If it actually had a homing instinct, it gave him essential information.
Deskis evidently had a sharp homing instinct because they led the way back in the serni-darkness.
He did not possess the homing instinct himself, and so he could not conceive that such a sense existed in man or woman.
Marooned on the rock, the horned flyers would first of all seize whatever living things they found there, and afterward, quite helpless to think except in terms of the homing instinct, would forget their fears of water and fly swiftly back to the abyss.
There was a natural tendency for them to concentrate in the outer areas of the city, but a built-in homing instinct brought them back to the busy central areas if they remained idle for an extended period.