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Comments by "Hallands Menved" (@Hallands.) on "Arctic Fox Fails" video.
Arctic foxes don’t use the earth magnetic field for their pouncing, what utter nonsense!
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@suemiller9506 No, they don’t! What good would it do them? They listen with their rotating, funnel shaped ears which they turn like directional antennae. They also tilt their heads, because with one ear closer to the ground, the lateral sound-difference is accentuated and the prey's location better pinpointed. But I’ll believe they use a magnetic sense for mapping out their hunting grounds in the ever changing snowscape which presents very few visible markers. Most animals have magnetic censor cell in the roof of the nose. Even humans have them. Some journalist read a scientific article somewhere and misunderstood is my guess. That happens a lot.
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