Originally published at: Vertically challenged: Cook pine trees lean mysteriously toward the equator | Boing Boing
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um no it cannot be gravity
gravity always pulls straight down by definition
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And should not be magnetism either, as the fields lines are oriented in the same way in both hemispheres.
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OK, now I need to take a walk and pay more attention to the one growing in my neighbor’s front yard.
I looked just now on street view but it’s kind of distorted, though it does seem to lean south.
*Edit. It does in fact lean south, as noticed on our dog walk yesterday evening.
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This is to compensate for dogs always facing north when they poop.
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