Thursday, August 28, 2008

Cows Are Compasses

Cows have magnetic sense, Google Earth images indicate. "Studying photographs of 8,510 cattle in 308 herds from around the world, zoologists Sabine Begall and Hynek Burda of the University of Duisburg-Essen and their colleagues found that two out of every three animals in the pictures were oriented in a direction roughly pointing to magnetic north."

1 comment:

The Dad said...

I was going to leave a comment but thought I'd write a full post instead.

http://2littlegirls.blogspot.com/2008/08/cow-magnets.html