{"id":677,"date":"2008-08-25T23:37:16","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T04:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=677"},"modified":"2008-08-25T23:37:16","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T04:37:16","slug":"talk-about-animal-magnetism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"Talk about animal magnetism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/features\/pix\/2008\/magnetic_cows.jpg\" class=\"floatright\" width=\"220\" \/>Cutters often say the best horses seem to draw cows to them when they perform. But the term &#8220;cow sense&#8221; could take on a whole new meaning for the cutting horse industry, in light of a report in this week&#8217;s issue of the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>. The report details findings of a team led by Hynek Burda of the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany suggesting that cows sense the earth&#8217;s magnetic field and use it to line up their bodies so they face either north or south when grazing or resting.<\/p>\n<p>Magnetic bridle, anyone?<\/p>\n<p>To check out the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=93956323\">click here <\/a>and read or listen to &#8220;Moo North: Cows Sense Earth&#8217;s Magnetism&#8221; from <em>All Things Considered<\/em> on NPR, Monday, August 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cutters often say the best horses seem to draw cows to them when they perform&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cutting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}