Foxes Might Use Magnetic Fields to Hunt
Foxes Might Use Magnetic Fields to Hunt
How do foxes know where to pounce when they can’t see their prey? There’s evidence they’re using the Earth’s magnetic field to help.
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Sources:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2010.1145
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Fox kid from the sixth sense.
Who’s this clown? Bring the other host back
…
So are foxes just funny orange catdog compasses?
I love this thumbnail! "Confused Algebra Woman" is my favorite meme (which this thumnail is based on.) I also love foxes!
Michael Aranda. Fox. Yup.
My namesake animal is the best animal. 🦊
Even my dogs use a pounce technique for moles and rabbits. Wonder why you didn’t make parallels or a comparison to this behaviour in dogs. The short, swift, stalky – or most fox-like – dogs are quite good at it. I think this is just precise hearing and smelling followed with this pounce behaviour.
If this is true, then I would suspect it’s true with coyotes also.
Shave your pubes under your chin.
Fox Whoopie goldberg from Ghost.
heh so do I
So it has a biological gps
Very informative video, but have scientists figured out what the fox says yet?
TY ☺️
We need to study how humans can navigate.
I can feel north and south almost like a passive sense.
Even without visual reference.
My friend and I made a video asking people about foxes and other wild canines on this channel. Check it out if you are interested.
Given the chance, I’d pounce on you Michael, 😆!
Foxes: "I can sense the earth’s magnetic field to catch my prey"
Falcon: "Personally, I prefer the air"
This is why I love fox
Foxes aren’t cute or fuzzy. Please stop saying they are. I have experience with them and they are filthy and horrible.
Foxes are magnetic themselves.
Right so foxes use quantum mechanics and electromagnetism to get food…
Overachievers 😒🙄
So basically you’re saying that well maybe, it could be, but we’re not sure, but a lot of corollary evidence says that it’s definitely a possibility that it might be how they do it unless its totally not.
Dogs can do exactly the same thing (at least more primitive breeds). Dogs use magnetic fields too, then?
Fox Jedi
Also the sun would be at its back, so the fox doesn’t get sun in its eyes, so when the fox pounces it will create a shadow over the prey, this could scare the prey (shock), or temporarily ‘blind’ the prey as its eyes wouldn’t have enough time to adjust to darkness, just my thoughts. Also if foxes were south of the equator would they still do this or would it be in the opposite direction?
Tell this to rich british people
Wow
ive watched owls dive into think snow and surface with small mammal .
For the algorithm.
Yeah, it demonstrates the limitations of the brain’s motor control.
Fox wakes up:
_Legs, online_
_Sensors, online_
_Pouncing systems, online_
_All systems nominal_
This Host looks like Tarzan.
And Fox is not the only animal pounce-hunting.
Fox quantum-magneto heads-up display! Is this cool or what?!?!?!?!
I need to hug one 🙁
I feel like it’s only a matter of time before we start leveraging cryptochromes in artificial eyes. Seems like it would be super useful for surveying, especially in geologically active regions.
Cat software, dog hardware, dolphin soundboard, *magnetic targetting system.*
Magneto😆😆
Actually, we use our red chakra to sense prey. It works kinda like the Byakugan.
Unless I missed something; this doesn’t make sense.
The description seems to rely on the Earth’s magnetic field being a constant variable -which it is not; the ‘field lines’ move and the strength changes.
Some joke about foxy … magnets?
I heard a long time ago that humans, especially males, have a magnetic north in their ears which is why we dont like asking for directions, not a joke lol
From the sound of it, science has a long way to go on this mystery.
wrg
The thumbnail is a new meme template
So that’s why Star Fox has that visual display!
my dog use this hunting techniques too so did he have a fox compas too??? 🙂
is michael…glowing?? his complexion is ✨✨✨
Speculate much?