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Urban birds' beak shape rapidly changed during COVID-19 lockdowns, suggesting human-driven transformations (phys.org)
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[โ€“] atomicorange@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[โ€“] MantisToboggon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Fucking weak dick birds! Amiright