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Dogs Poop in Alignment with Earth's Magnetic Field
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 38511557:MV8yNDQ4NTA5XzQyMTA3NjIwX0UzNzg5NkNG] Scientists have recently discovered that the red fox also uses the Earth's magnetic field when hunting prey. The odds of a red fox catching a mouse buried beneath the snow rise to nearly 75 perfect if the predator is facing north. The fox uses the invisible magnetic field of the planet to triangulate and home in on its prey, buried in up to 3 feet of snow, from 18 feet away. http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/north-america/animals/red-fox.htm [/quote]
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Dogs seem to have an awful lot of ritual before hunkering down and soiling the sidewalk. It’s not uncommon to see a dog owner—plastic bag in hand—rolling his eyes as his furry companion sniffs and spins, getting just so before hunkering down to do the least considerate thing possible.
But for whatever its worth, all that spinning is far from arbitrary. What dog owners witness is a small and furry version of the aurora borealis and a link between species and environment that’s as holistic and beautiful as a dog pooping can be. A team of Czech and German researchers found that dogs actually align themselves with the Earth’s magnetic field when they poop.
Proving at least that they’re really devoted to their work, the researchers measured the direction of the body axis of 70 dogs from 37 breeds during 1,893 defecations and 5,582 urinations over the course of two years, and found that dogs “prefer to excrete with the body being aligned along the North-south axis under calm magnetic field conditions.” They fittingly published their results in the journal Frontiers in Zoology.
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