--Posted By johannes to <http://www.monochrom.at/english/2008/08/cows-face-north-says-google.htm>monochrom at 8/26/2008 02:17:00 PM
They could be the world's smelliest magnets. Grazing cows tend to
face the North and South Poles, claims a new study of 308 herds made
using Google Earth satellite photos. The ungulate's orientation
suggests that they, like migratory birds, sea turtles and monarch
butterflies, tune into Earth's magnetic fields, says Hynek Burda, a
biologist at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
<http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14590-and-on-that-farm-the-cows-face-north--says-google-.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news4_head_dn14590>Link
