BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Cattle shown to align north-south

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Cattle shown to align north-south: "Have you ever noticed that herds of grazing animals all face the same way?

Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction.

Wild deer also display this behaviour - a phenomenon that has apparently gone unnoticed by herdsmen and hunters for thousands of years."