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..and this was how we learned about migration? That’s such an absurd way to discover it
by setr 8y ago
..and this was how we learned about migration? That’s such an absurd way to discover it
- njarboe 8y agoSeems very reasonable to me. Here are some other theories at the time from the wiki article about where birds came from: "Some theories of the time held that they turned into mice, or hibernated at the bottom of the sea during the winter, and such theories were even propagated by zoologists of the time."
- Someone 8y agoThis was accidental, but I think tagging individual birds to make them identifiable by humans is still the primary way we learn about migration. The alternative of continuously tracking individual birds wasn’t possible until late 20th century and I think still is fairly expensive.
- setr 8y agoSure, it's just a comical predecessor to tagging