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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 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day 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 4 points 1 day ago

Preggo birdies were eating healthy and hatched strong kids.

Source: I made it up

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 day ago

Fucking weak dick birds! Amiright