Dogs can be trained to find a bar magnet.

ABSTRACT: Magnetoreception, the ability to sense the Earth's magnetic field (MF), is a widespread phenomenon in the animal kingdom. In 1966, the first report on a magnetosensitive vertebrate, the European robin (Erithacus rubecula), was published. After that, numerous further species of different taxa have been identified to be magnetosensitive as well. Recently, it has been demonstrated that domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) prefer to align their body axis along the North-South axis during territorial marking under calm MF conditions and that they abandon this preference when the Earth's MF is unstable. In a further study conducting a directional two-choice-test, dogs showed a spontaneous preference for the northern direction. Being designated as putatively magnetosensitive and b

SUBMITTER: Martini S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6301327 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature