Dogs poop in line with Earth’s magnetic field, says study
By David Ferguson
Thursday, January 2, 2014
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 Earths magnetic field. The Motherboard blog reported on the studys findings, saying that the research was carried out by a team of Czech and German scientists.
Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earths 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.
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Tucker takes a pee right next to my canoe, every time he is about do jump in the car .... facing due west.
His favorite place to take a dump is next the the pine tree near the end of his run..... facing due east.
I knew there was something wrong with that fucking dog!
This is much ado-doo about nothing...I've been crapping along a north-south axis for years and nobody raised a ruckus!
;^)
OK this is a little crazy, so here's a study that makes a little more sense.Scientists-Successfully-Develope-Glow-in-the-Dark-Pigs
As usual cats are in the avant garde .
You know, thinking about our dogs... This makes sense!
Did he circle clockwise or counter ?
Clockwise is prolly just the coriolis force ...
or not
Those are important hypothetical queries to query in the name of science . And I think the technology of glowing doggie doo has a market .
Everything has a market somewhere, Petey... it's all part of the Global Economy.
OK ... so how many kilos do you want ? Shipped next day air or UPS BROWN ?
Gotta say I'm really excited to learn where the 'frontier' of zoology is right about now-- nothing as thrilling asbeing at the cutting edge of important scientific breakthroughs, y'know. Of course, those Germans are always ahead of everybody when it comes to advances in science. If only the US hadn't cut back on research funding, WE could have been first in the dogshit race. I'm sure money would be available if there's a potential military application for dogshit, or possibly an anti-terrorist angle somewhere...
Leave it to Jerry to keep us informed about dogs pooping. Thanks.
I don't know what's wrong with the Raw Story link, but this is the link to the original Frontiers in Zoology story.
Yeah, it's sorta like dowsing.
Your overstating the findings DR, the dogs are only reacting to the earths magnetic fields, they're not blessing the stuff!
That's really a poor attitude DR, if you read the article posted in Frontiers in Zoology , you would find there most definite value to this research.
Excerpt;
Magnetic alignment is a suitable paradigm to scan for the occurrence of magnetosensitivity across animal taxa with the heuristic potential to contribute to the understanding of the mechanism ofmagnetoreceptionandidentify further functions of magnetosensation apart from navigation.
We are first in the dogshit race, just look at the results of the 113th Congress.
No problem Grump, I'm always happy to keep the News Stalkers membership up to date on the latest important scientific findings.