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Google Earth Study Shows Cows Usually Point North
Scientists from Germany's University of Duisburg-Essen used Google satellite images to study hundreds of herds of the mammals in England, Ireland, India and the United States. They saw that two-thirds of the cows were oriented in a north-south direction, which supported their theory that the animals, like other breeds such as bees and whales, have tiny organs in their brains that contain magnetite, which is used like a compass.
So what's in it for the cows? According to the researchers, probably nothing. They say the sense may help cows find their way home or might just be a vestigial sense with no benefits. Other experts have confirmed with what you might have already suspected -- this study has probably no practical use, anywhere, ever, to anyone or any cow. [From: Telegraph.co.uk]
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Subscribe to commentsE.SchwarzAug 26th 2008 12:52PM
"If cows generally face NORTH, does it follow that they generally break wind in a SOUTHERLY direction".
RandyAug 26th 2008 2:22PM
Your point brought up a question...If this study brought about the north/south facing thing, then....Have they done a study of herds in the southern hemisphere? Do the cows down there face more south/north?
If I asked this, then one of the douche bags that used google earth(tm) should have asked this 10 minutes after finding these results.
Which, in fact, could have sparked the greatest upheaval in science to date. If the cows in the southern hemisphere do in fact face south, then it is entirely possible that they, millions of years ago, set the earth in motion to it's current tilted axis and simply my farting methane gas towards what we now know as the equator. Northern cows farting to the south, southern cows farting to the north.
....Either that, or they just want to move so the sun isn't in their eyes!