The article itself is over a decade old and based on questionable data gathering and a faulty analysis processes. If you read the article they published they essentially didn’t find anything, determined without providing evidence that other factors couldn’t be a determining factor, and then data-dredging when they could find anything statistically significant to match their hypothesis.
SkeptVet article explaining the findings in detail.
Basically it was just shitty science.
I guess you could say the study was dogshit.
“what do you do for work?”
“I watch dogs poop”Still more useful than most office jobs.
And less shit to deal with.
So when you’re lost, just find a pooping dog to know where the North is. Or the south.
Wait this is useless.
If you’re not in a hurry (and you know which hemisphere you’re in) you can make a sun compass to figure out whether the dog pooped north or south. Come to think of it, you can make a sun compass observing a pooping dog first.
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Don’t know about that… I’ve got 54 dogs and they shit in all directions.
Your house must fuckin stink mate
I think it’s a farm at that point, and yea farms stink.
Not really, only 4b love inside. Those shit outside:)
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I just got a new puppy and when she poops she starts facing one directing the turns 180 while pooping then scoots over to the side a bit to finish.
Is she broken? Should I do an RMA?Have you tried just restarting it?
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.
Or, like, have night mode exist on earth. One of these ideas should work.
New study suggests dogs capable of celestial navigation: “Columbus was a sucker for using an astrolabe when he could have just brought along a good boi and watched him shit”
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I’m amazed. I am also amazed that someone was paid to observe dogs defecating in the wild.
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This is some real shit
My 5 year old dog spins when she poos. Picking up her poo requires me to check the area she was in, as there are usually 3-4 spots it landed. But unleashed, she’s fine.The vet tells me this might be harness related. Something about the restraining leash and harness makes her spin.
But now I have a morbid curiosity to see if she starts north or south.
My dog would walk around while pooping, with a weird gait that involved putting his back paws ahead of his front paws. I once saw another dog do a handstand to poop.
I used to have a dog that would do a handstand to poop. He would find a tree and essentially walk up the tree with his hind legs then poop. People would literally stop in the street to watch him do it. Poop would roll down his back sometimes. It was so weird. Tried to get him to change, but no.
Literally the shittiest compass ever
It’s a called dumpass.
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