Studies like this have me confused.
How do we know they use the magnetic field, and don't just like... Look at the sun, or the shadows it casts.
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Presumably, they'd do the same thing at night.
But in that case, we'd need to be sure that they aren't using the North Star.
I blame the sun. Dogs poop in the morning and evening when owners are not at work. The sun shines from the east and from the west during these hours. And I think they don't like facing the sun.
Time of day is addressed in the study and
was not a reliable predictor of expression of alignment
They also mention that the presence of the sun is possibly likely to affect dogs less than humans - meaning that dogs might have less aversion to facing the sun.
Study is here: https://frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1742-9994-10-80
This doesn’t make sense. Why wouldn’t they orient west in the morning and east in the evening?
If the study was re-attempted in-Doors with a mechanism to control the magnetic field, we could be able to verify that dogs are orienting by the magnetic field instead of, say, the position of the sun.
Gonna start bringing a compass with me when walking my dogs now...
My pug used to shit right on top of rocks.
Foxes are pretty notorious about that. You'll be hiking and have a gorgeous view and look down and a rock had a fox turd right on it
My lagotto has an exquisite sense for art, he loves to place his work on the best possible pedestal. Sometimes it's a rock or something man-made that's sufficiently elevated and stands out, but he also sometimes plants his ass on top of a bush or a small tree.
This is some real shit
Literally the shittiest compass ever
They really do want an Ig Nobel Prize.
I would assume it's because pooping is a very vulnerable moment, and they prefer to not face the sun and being blinded while doing so.