Many pastures have electric fences. Accepted theory was that these fences applied electric shock to the animal that touched the wire. But this study proves that the animal never really touches the fence. When they get near, they align parallel and never contact the fence.
Patrick. From: emc-p...@ieee.org [mailto:emc-p...@ieee.org] On Behalf Of Cortland Richmond Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:31 AM To: Doug Nix Cc: emc-p...@ieee.org Subject: Re: Interesting Article Blindfolds, maybe. Cortland ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Nix <mailto:d...@mac.com> To: k...@earthlink.net Cc: emc-p...@ieee.org Sent: 3/17/2009 9:12:53 PM Subject: Re: Interesting Article Cortland, Interesting grant proposal. How would you plan to control for herd behaviour, since that may have direct influence on the cows desire to align themselves relative to each other... Doug d...@mac.com - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <emcp...@ptcnh.net> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald <dhe...@gmail.com> - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <emcp...@ptcnh.net> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald <dhe...@gmail.com>