Birds Evolve Shorter Wings To Escape Traffic Crush : NPR - 0 views
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Bryanna Shovels on 17 Apr 14Example of adaptation
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In fact, some birds may be evolving shorter wings to let them navigate traffic more safely.
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Well, the most surprising thing was that the wing length on these road kill birds was longer than on a sample of birds that had died accidentally in mist nets. And we think that these net fatalities probably represent a sample of the population at large. So when we compared the road kills with the population at large, we found that the road kills had significantly longer wings.
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