Dogs can be trained to find a bar magnet

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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6117" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6117</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6117" target="_blank" >10.7717/peerj.6117</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Dogs can be trained to find a bar magnet
Original language description
Magnetoreception, the ability to sense the Earth s magnetic field (MF), is a widespread phenomenon in the animal kingdom. In 1966, the first report on a magnetosensitive vertebrate, the European robin (Erithacus rubecula), was published. After that, numerous further species of different taxa have been identified to be magnetosensitive as well. Recently, it has been demonstrated that domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) prefer to align their body axis along the North-South axis during territorial marking under calm MF conditions and that they abandon this preference when the Earth s MF is unstable. In a further study conducting a directional two-choice-test, dogs showed a spontaneous preference for the northern direction. Being designated as putatively magnetosensitive and being also known as trainable for diverse choice and search tests, dogs seem to be suitable model animals for a direct test of magnetoreception: learning to find a magnet. Using operant conditioning dogs were trained to identify t
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10614 - Behavioral sciences biology

Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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