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Urban birds' beak shape rapidly changed during COVID-19 lockdowns, suggesting human-driven transformations (phys.org)
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[–] MantisToboggon@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They just got healthier when they weren't eating ourshitty food. Hard to believe.

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Could be that, or the lack of humans lead to food scarcity for the urban birdies and the wild type were better adapted and thrived more and had more living babies for those couple of generations.

[–] MantisToboggon@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Fucking weak dick birds! Amiright

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did they actually become healthier? It sounds like their beak shapes just changed to adapt to what they needed to eat

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Preggo birdies were eating healthy and hatched strong kids.

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