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[Rajack]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/02/dogs-poop-in-line-with-earths-magnetic-field-says-study/

A study published this week in the journal Frontiers in Zoology suggests that dogs choose to relieve themselves along a north-south axis in line with Earth’s magnetic field. The Motherboard blog reported on the study’s findings, saying that the research was carried out by a team of Czech and German scientists.

“Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field,” said the research team. “Dogs preferred to excrete with the body being aligned along the North-south axis” rather than the East-west axis.

The study examined the daily habits of 70 dogs during 1,893 defecations and 5,582 urinations over the course of two years. Consistently, during times of calm electromagnetic “weather,” the dogs chose to eliminate while facing north or south.

Dogs are not the only animals that are sensitive to the Earth’s magnetism. When it comes time for them to mate, salmon use their sense of the Earth’s magnetism to find their way back to the spawning grounds where they were born. Birds, similarly, migrate along magnetic lines. Even ants have been proven to have a sense of the Earth’s alignment and to distinguish between north, south, east and west.

As to why the dogs prefer to poop facing north or south rather than east or west, that’s still a mystery.

That's a lot of crap.

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

Old as shit

 

[zma1013]

My dog is apparently out of the loop because he just poops randomly all over the yard. He walks around in circles while pooping.

 

[Rajack]

My dog is apparently out of the loop because he just poops randomly all over the yard. He walks around in circles while pooping.

Or perhaps he is in the loop?

 

[KingBeyondTheWall]

What a crappy story.

 

[dragonlife]

My dog is apparently out of the loop because he just poops randomly all over the yard. He walks around in circles while pooping.

Mine does, too. It's cute.

 

[Trojita]

wow

poop magnet story appears again

much repost

 

[rasberryjam]

That's some crazy shit right there.

 

[maniac-kun]

So someone decided to dedicate their time as a scientist to the behaiviour of how dogs poop alligned to the magnetic field...

 

[Draft]

My dog is apparently out of the loop because he just poops randomly all over the yard. He walks around in circles while pooping.

Mine too, and if my Google Map reckoning is correct he tends to pee while aligned east/west.

 

[Josh7289]

Huh...

 

[Deleted member 10571]

Everything follows The Beam.

 

[Unbound By Death]

And yet they can't even find the food i throw at them

 

[Timedog]

wow

 

[zma1013]

And yet they can't even find the food i throw at them

Throw magnets at them instead.

 

[God Dayumm]

My dog is apparently out of the loop because he just poops randomly all over the yard. He walks around in circles while pooping.

Maybe you live exactly on a magnetic pole

 

[choodi]

My dog is apparently out of the loop because he just poops randomly all over the yard. He walks around in circles while pooping.

Mine does, too. It's cute.

No, it's not cute when you are the one who has to pick it up. Shit is a single pile like every other dog, please. Finding all of the random lumps is hard work.

 

[davepoobond]

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