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Posted on 08/03/2016 3:44:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai
This odd habit by our feathered friends has long been theorized, but now German scientists say they have definitive proof for the first time ever. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute in Seewiesen, Bavaria, announced on Wednesday that they had proved for the first time that birds can fly while sleeping and still stay aloft.
The researchers were able to monitor the brainwaves and movements of great frigate birds from the Galapagos Islands, whose airborne journeys may last for months. They strapped devices to the heads of female birds to measure brain activity over the course of ten days. […]
Sometimes the birds were in a way half asleep: one hemisphere of their brains would be awake to detect potential threats with the respective eye open. […] But the birds were also at times able to keep both brain hemispheres asleep without crashing. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.de ...
....now when ya broadside a duck you can say he was sleeping
So that’s why they slam into the sliding glass doors and windows.
American TV cameras prove liberals sleep while other liberals are talking.
Bubba : Hillary : : Ginsburg : Obama
As long as airline pilots don’t do the same, we should be fine.
and pigeons can fly, sleep, and sh*t on you all at the same time
Some pilots think this.
spend another, say, $50 million of taxpayer money....
and maybe they can prove
how pigeons
can fly, sleep, and shiit ... all 3 at the same time
spend another, say, $50 million of taxpayer money....
and maybe they can prove
how pigeons
can fly, sleep, and shiit ... all 3 at the same time
They ought to issue them summonses for that: FWI, Flying While Impaired
Heck. I can sleep while working.....
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