A recent study has shown that canines are magnetically sensitive. Now, before you go sticking refrigerator magnets to your dog, it isn’t that simple (or cool). In an abstract from Frontiers in Zoology, a conclusion was made that “magnetic sensitivity was proved in dogs.”

Over a two-year span, the defecation and urinary patterns of 70 dogs from 37 breeds was studied. The observers noted that when the magnetic field (MF) was stable, the “body axis” of the dogs during waste elimination was often parallel with the magnified North-south axis. When unstable, this behavior was not present.

“Magnetic alignment is a suitable paradigm to scan for the occurrence of magnetosensitivity…to the understanding of the mechanism of magnetoreception and identify further functions of magnetosensation apart from navigation.” A predictable pattern of the dogs’ behavior was proven during MF fluctuations. The study was the first time distinguishable behavior changes were noted in a mammal during the earth’s MF fluctuations.

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The world is full of music – but it turns out that the planet makes its own music as well. A “dawn chorus” (sometimes simply called a “chorus”) is a group of natural sounds caused by electromagnetic waves which are emitted from the Earth’s magnetosphere. The waves are audible to the human ear without sophisticated equipment; just a simple radio receiver will pick up the hauntingly beautiful natural sounds.

The phenomenon has been well-known and documented for many years; dawn choruses have even been sampled in songs as some of the most beautiful sounds of the natural world. The name “dawn chorus” arose from the fact that these sounds are more easily heard in the early morning hours. Solar winds coming into contact with the magnetosphere seem to be the cause of the naturally occurring music.

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