Dogs poop in line with Earth's magnetic field

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It is for the first time that (a) magnetic sensitivity was proved in dogs, (b) a measurable, predictable behavioral reaction upon natural MF fluctuations could be unambiguously proven in a mammal, and (c) high sensitivity to small changes in polarity, rather than in intensity, of MF was identified as biologically meaningful. Our findings open new horizons in magnetoreception research. Since the MF is calm in only about 20 % of the daylight period, our findings might provide an explanation why many magnetoreception experiments were hardly replicable and why directional values of records in diverse observations are frequently compromised by scatter.

This seems like really weird language to be used in a science journal. The collection and analysis of data can “(unambiguously) prove” things? I’m only used to seeing mathematical theorems and the like being proved.

Sounds like some great peer reviewing going on at that ope-access online journal, and an surprisingly credulous link from an avowed hater of bad science.