STUDY: Roe Deer Align North-South When Relaxing, Running

Researchers at the Czech University of Life Sciences have conducted a study on roe deer to see if they align themselves with Earth’s magnetic field. Researchers gathered data on 188 deer. They observed deer were most likely to stand along a north-northeast by south-southwest axis.

As the observers got closer, deer also tended to flee in either a north-northeast or south-southwest direction. Read more in Discover Magazine. photo By Juan Iacruz, via Wikimedia Commons