Have animals lost their inner compass?

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These foxes were insta-frozen in Norway by a cold front.

As you can see they were completely caught off guard...

If these are for real then wtf...

Seriously, could these not be some art work by, well artists?, students etc?.

I'm going to call fake unless there's a link to a serious story on this.

If true, and I doubt it, then flash frozen Siberian woolly mammoths, from 13000 years ago, does to come to mind.

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There's an extra special warm place reserved for you.

Although it has been strongly suggested that magnetism is the source for guidance in migratory animals, a new study seems to put the question to rest. The cells of certain migratory animals contain iron-rich crystals called Magnetite that are highly susceptible to earth's magnetic field.



Migration explained? Likely source of animals' magnetic sense identified

Researchers have isolated what are essentially tiny compass needles in the noses of rainbow trout that may explain these and many other animals' incredible ability to navigate across vast distances.

When cells scraped from the trout's nasal passages were placed in a rotating magnetic field, a clump of tiny iron-rich crystals inside the cells called magnetite — the same mineral used in compass needles — spun in synchrony with the field, turning the cells around with them.

The strength of the crystals' magnetic response, and their firm attachment to the surrounding cell membranes, lent strong support for what scientists have long suspected: That these crystals lean back and forth like a sail in response to Earth's weak magnetic field, and that the cells they are embedded in somehow convey their swaying movements to the brain. This is believed to confer trout and other migratory animals with a "magnetic sense" by which to judge direction.

...As detailed in a new paper published online July 9 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers found that the magnetic cells in the trout's noses swayed in response to a magnetic field 100 times more forcefully than had previously been predicted. "More importantly, we show for the first time that the internal compass needle has a strong connection to the plasma membrane [or outer membrane] of the cell, which is important to realize an immediate sensing process," said lead researcher Michael Winklhofer of the University of Munich in Germany.
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Can some humans have an inner compass?

Is it possible that someone could focus and start seeing geometric thin lines in their peripherical vision and eventually cover up their entire vision?

If these are for real then wtf...

Seriously, could these not be some art work by, well artists?, students etc?.

I'm going to call fake unless there's a link to a serious story on this.

If true, and I doubt it, then flash frozen Siberian woolly mammoths, from 13000 years ago, does to come to mind.

Same thing happened during the last pole shift. I can see the movie "Day after Tommorow" happening for real.

Animal compasses have been off for a long time...I've been saying that to hubby for years. You wanna know what's going on in the world, in the earth, in the sky, pay attention to the animals of the world. They are tune with the Earth much more than we are.

yep.

like your sig, too. :)