New on Zoologic: Cow Compass

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Photo by Martin Abegglen (CC BY-SA 2.0) Scientists pored through satellite images of cows from Google Earth and found the animals were not positioning themselves willy-nilly in their pastures; they aligned their bodies in a north-south direction.Read more about how and why cows might sense the Earth's magnetic field: Cow Compass Points the Way North.

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