How are dogs so good at navigation? Can they sense the earth’s magnetic field? How can you measure this?

Elephants are intelligent and noble beasts. Do they yawn though?

In this episode, Lu and Tirth discuss whether dogs can sense the earth’s magnetic field when they poop and whether elephants yawn.

Timestamps:

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:59 Tirth’s run-in with the TSA
• 8:41 Dog magnetism study
• 20:54 Elephant yawning study
• 32:45 What did you learn today, outro

Article links:

• Hart et al., 2013. Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field. Frontiers in Zoology. https://frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1742-9994-10-80

• Rossman et al., 2017. When Yawning Occurs in Elephants. Frontiers in Veterinary Research. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2017.00022/full

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