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This owl knows the speed limit... (1 Viewer)

Gretchen

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Saw this brief article in the New Scientist and thought it really interesting. They noted how birds seemed to time their taking off based on the usual speed of vehicles on a particular road rather than the particular car. The birds averaged earlier take offs from roads with high speed limits than from those with low ones.
 
I hadn't seen that other thread, thanks. I was disappointed that this article didn't actually talk about the species studied and whether it was only at night. I guess it is probably a germ of a study (pilot study in a sense?), which would require more time and effort to get substantial results from.
 
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