Cows Tend to Face North-South
Google Earth images show that cattle all over the world tend to align themselves with Earth’s magnetic field.
Have you ever driven down a country road in cattle country and noticed all the cows are facing the same direction as they slowly chew their cud? A team of German researchers claim this is true for both cattle and deer in the August 26, 2008 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Using Google Earth images, the scientists looked down on over 8,000 cattle around the world. When grazing or resting, cows tended to face either magnetic north or south.
The researchers combined field observations with the satellite data and discovered that herds of both deer and cattle tend to align themselves north-south. Factors like wind and the angle of the sun had little bearing on how the animals stood. More often than not, like needles of a compass, heads swiveled northward. While it’s been known that birds, bees and fish use the earth’s magnetic fields for orientation, this study is the first to point to a magnetic sense in large mammals. The scientists speculate that this behavior may allow the animals to stay spatially oriented. In case danger lurks and a cow needs to make any sudden…moos.
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