Google Earth & Animal Magnetism

Researcher Sabine Begall and her colleagues at Germany’s University of Duisburg-Essen examined Google Earth images of 8,510 cattle in 308 pastures around the world, and made direct observations of 2,974 wild deer at 225 locations.
They found that whether grazing or resting, the animals tended to face magnetic north or south.
This phenomenon or animal magnetic orientation has apparently gone unnoticed by herdsmen and hunters for the thousands of years before Google Earth allowed such a global survey.
Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Begall notes that because the direction of wind and sunlight varied widely at the observed pastures, the only common factor that could have influenced the animals’ positioning was the magnetic field.
Reuters report HERE