{"id":2929,"date":"2008-08-26T17:09:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T00:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2008-08-26T17:11:45","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T00:11:45","slug":"iron-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2008\/08\/26\/17\/09\/iron-cows\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Cows"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2008\/08\/22\/0803650105.abstract\">Domestic cattle (n = 8,510 in 308 pastures) across the globe, and grazing and resting red and roe deer (n = 2,974 at 241 localities), align their body axes in roughly a north\u00e2\u20ac\u201csouth direction &#8230; magnetic alignment is the most parsimonious explanation. To test the hypothesis that cattle orient their body axes along the field lines of the Earth&#8217;s magnetic field, we analyzed the body orientation of cattle from localities with high magnetic declination. Here, magnetic north was a better predictor than geographic north. This study reveals the magnetic alignment in large mammals based on statistically sufficient sample sizes.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic cattle (n = 8,510 in 308 pastures) across the globe, and grazing and resting red and roe deer (n = 2,974 at 241 localities), align their body axes in roughly a north\u00e2\u20ac\u201csouth direction&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[802,801,803,799,800,804,805,72],"tags":[1631,1630,1632,1628,1629,1633,1634,1377],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cattle","category-cows","category-deer","category-magnetoreception","category-magnetosensing","category-migration","category-neuroscience","category-science","tag-cattle","tag-cows","tag-deer","tag-magnetoreception","tag-magnetosensing","tag-migration","tag-neuroscience","tag-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}