On 04/24/2010 10:56 AM, Mauro Lacy wrote: > Rick Monteverde wrote: >> Maybe they just don't like the sun in their face? >> > They surely thought about this. From the abstract: > "Because wind and light conditions could be excluded as a common > denominator determining the body axis orientation, magnetic alignment is > the most parsimonious explanation." > > In other words, if what you say were the cause, they should head south > in the southern hemisphere.
And they'd face east in the afternoon and west in the morning. One would expect that they checked for that.
