Researchers find dogs sensitive to small variations in Earth's magnetic field
Friday, January 3, 2014 - 12:00
in Astronomy & Space
A team of researchers in the Czech Republic has found that dogs can now be added to the list of animals that are able to sense and respond to the Earth's magnetic field. In their paper published in Frontiers in Zooology, the researchers describe field experiments they conducted that indicated that dogs prefer to defecate while in a North-South stance relative to the Earth's axis, during times when the magnetic field is calm.