Dogs are aligned with the magnetic field of the Earth to ... - SlashGear

If you have a dog, be sure you’ve noticed that sometimes dogs are given a few turns before stool. These returns are not arbitrary: a team of German and Czech scientists found that dogs align with the magnetic field of the Earth when they make their needs

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Researchers looked at 70 dogs 37 races for 1,893 and 5,582 stools for two years pissing to conclude that dogs “prefer to excrete the body aligned in north-south under calm conditions the magnetic field. “

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interesting conclusion, it is not known why dogs behave well.

“It is still puzzling why dogs are aligned , if they do ‘consciously’ (if the magnetic field is sensory sense – dogs ‘see’, ‘hear’ or ‘smell’ the address or perceive it as a haptic stimulus) or if the reception is controlled in the vegetative level (to ‘feel better / more comfortable or worse / less comfortable’ in a certain direction.) Our analysis of the raw data (not shown here) indicate not only that dogs prefer the NS direction, but at the same time avoid the EW direction. “

This behavior was observed during stable magnetic field conditions, not happening when its conditions were unstable (with a solar storm, for example).

Birds, turtles and fish use the Earth’s magnetic field as a guide when they migrate, and it is known that cattle and deer often eat in the north – south axis, following the (non-geographic) magnetic north. However, this is the first time that this effect has been found in dogs.

Magnetic consciousness was observed only in dogs off leash in the open, so maybe if you get to walk your dog on a leash is not perfectly aligned – the owner is most important for the dog that magnetic field <. / p> Link : Motherboard