The Effect of High-Voltage Power Lines on Magnetic Orientation of Domestic Dogs
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41320%2F25%3A103539" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41320/25:103539 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15/24/3534" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15/24/3534</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani15243534" target="_blank" >10.3390/ani15243534</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Effect of High-Voltage Power Lines on Magnetic Orientation of Domestic Dogs
Original language description
Domestic dogs can sense the geomagnetic field (GMF), spontaneously aligning their bodies along its axis, altering the alignment's pattern during geomagnetic disturbances. Whether anthropogenic magnetic fields (MF) from high-voltage power lines (PL) influence this behavior remains unclear. We investigated the effects of alternating MF generated by PL on spontaneous magnetic alignment in 36 dogs. Behavior was recorded under north-south (NS) and east-west (EW) oriented PL and compared with control conditions lacking anthropogenic MF. Each dog's mean alignment angle relative to magnetic north was calculated from >50 measurements per condition, and Grand Means (GMs) were derived. Under control geomagnetically calm conditions, alignment was bimodal (GM = 23 degrees/203 degrees), while geomagnetic storms caused significant shifts and increased angular dispersion. Under NS-oriented PL, alignment remained bimodal (GM = 5 degrees/185 degrees), but under EW-oriented PL it became trimodal (Likelihood ratio test for multimodality: nodes = 3, p = 0.042; GM = 103 degrees/283 degrees). These differences were statistically significant (LME for linearized angles: p < 0.001 for control vs. NS PL and control vs. EW PL). Our results demonstrate that dogs maintain directional alignment under PL exposure, with orientation patterns corresponding to the direction of both MF and PL, which suggests a potentially complex impact involving non-magnetic cues.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
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
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000803" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000803: Advanced research supporting the forestry and wood-processing sector´s adaptation to global change and the 4th industrial revolution</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Animals
ISSN
2076-2615
e-ISSN
2076-2615
Volume of the periodical
15
Issue of the periodical within the volume
24
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
1-16
UT code for WoS article
001648093300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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