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NireBryce
@NireBryce

here's your occasional reminder that science still has no explanation as to why dogs orient north-south while pooping


NireBryce
@NireBryce

foxes point northeast when they pounce, the majority of the time

which was 75% more successful than other directions for the duration of the study


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"The tight clustering of preferred (and particularly of successful) attack directions cannot be explained by an effect of light cues (sun position, celestial polarized light pattern, asymmetrical lighting, etc.) since observations were carried out at different times of day, at different seasons of the year, under overcast (most often) and clear skies (see electronic supplementary material for detail). Nor was this clustering a response to wind direction, which varied from observation to observation, and rarely came directly from the north or south." (apparently scientists have no idea why foxes are like this still)

there's a few theories that they actually use the magnetic field as a trick to judge distance from a target.

I haven't read the article but I do have a cursed engineer brain, so I assume if that's true the way it's done is basically lining up with that field and then comparing it with depth perception vs depth perception of things it's already successfully pounced