Unexpectedly, Some People Can Feel Magnetosphere, But Why?

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Unexpectedly, Some People Can Feel Magnetosphere, But Why?

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I have to start to take notice which way my dogs poop haha

I wouldn't be surprised if some results of the dog experiment atleast was skeved because of the tiniest dominant wind direction.
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Hi, Magnus! FWIW, most animals in the wild will orient themselves so that their noses are upwind when relieving themselves. This allows them to smell any other animals (especially predators) that may be nearby. At least that is what I remember from my younger years growing up in the bayou country. Its just one of those things you learn such as snakes, squirrels, raccoons and possums climb down trees head first but a bear or a cat will climb down head upward as a human would.

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Here is the paper looking at dogs (it is free):


https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/1 ... -10-80.pdf

...Last but not least, the argument that the dogs might
orient with regard to sun position so that they turn with
their back to the sun in order to avoid dazzling by
sunshine during such a sensitive and vulnerable act as
excretion can be questioned. This argument is not
plausible for urine marking, which is a brief act. We
doubt that a dog that cares of not being attacked would
always make sure to be turned away from the sun. The
dog will likely look in that direction from where danger
can most probably be expected - and this is for sure
not always the direction away from the sun. In contrast
to a human, the dog is relying also on its nose and its
ears (in some breeds even more than on its eyes) when
monitoring its surroundings - so we may expect that
the dog heads with its nose and pinnae against the
wind or in the direction of interest. Directing the
pinnae and the nose may take priority over eyes. One
can also often observe that dogs (especially during
defecation) align in a certain direction, which is actually
a different one from the direction of interest and
they turn their head then in that other direction. Also
we have to take into account that dogs are smaller than
humans, they look at a different angle over the horizon
and even in situations when we are dazzled, they might
be not. Quite important: note also that the preference
is axial - there are many cases when the dog actually
looks southwards. There is no evidence for shift of the
alignment axis during the day.

Here is other research performed by one of the lead authors:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?us ... AAAJ&hl=de
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