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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 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago

Fucking weak dick birds! Amiright

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Preggo birdies were eating healthy and hatched strong kids.

Source: I made it up