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> the bird resumed normal transmission and no doubt had some explaining to do when he returned to his flock over the water near the nesting island. as a dad jo
by orliesaurus 3y ago
> the bird resumed normal transmission and no doubt had some explaining to do when he returned to his flock over the water near the nesting island.
as a dad joke appreciator, i love whoever wrote this
- nomel 3y agoIncredible that it never lost its bearings.
- bsder 3y agoTo me, that is WAY more impressive (so is the 4700m altitude!). The bird got completely tossed around for hours in extremely high winds and then still navigated back to it's breeding ground. That's some amazing navigation skill.
- busyant 3y ago> The bird got completely tossed around for hours in extremely high winds and then still navigated back to it's breeding ground. And I got lost on one of the simplest hiking trails in a neighboring town last week. I tried to go off-path to circumvent a fallen tree. After about 15 minutes of thinking that I was just steps from reaching my destination, I ended up back at my starting point! I'm ashamed.
- RHSman2 3y agoI believe this is how humanity will die. Internal TomTom degradation!!!
- finite_depth 3y agoI don't know about this specific bird, but many birds have what are essentially biological compasses built into them.
- nomel 3y agoNot sure why this was flagged dead. It's a fact that some birds are sensitive to magnetic fields [1]: > They do this with the help of the magnetically sensitive proteins in their eyes and the magneto-receptive cells in the vestibular nucleus in their brain. [1] https://phys.org/news/2022-02-compass-birds-ways-foreign.html#:~:text=To%20date%2C%20studies%20show%20that,vestibular%20nucleus%20in%20their%20brain https://phys.org/news/2022-02-compass-birds-ways-foreign.htm....
- throwaway290 3y agoAllegedly, dogs too. Unclear how but they align north-south when pooping if they get the chance.
- tasuki 3y agoYes, but that by itself does not help all that much? I give you a compass and an 11 hour ride on a typhoon. The compass won't give you magical ability to return to your starting spot.
- samus 3y agoThe compass allows me to track in which direction I'm roughly blown. Not on the scale of seconds, but hours. As soon as I escape the typhoon, I can start going back.
- kk6mrp 3y agoYou're forgetting that it had GPS!
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoI liked this too, but it made me a little sad that the little bird would never be able to tell his bird friends what a crazy adventure he went on.
- photochemsyn 3y agoIt could very well have had a fair amount of company from companion non-GPS-tagged birds (indeed seems a bit more likely?).
- swagempire 3y agoWe never know what's in bird songs...