They observed that birds that hatched during the pandemic, when the campuses became empty and there was less food waste to feed on, had beaks with higher bill length and slimmer structure, similar to the wildland birds. However, after the COVID-19 restrictions were lifted and people started trickling back to campus and food waste became ample. Birds born during this period reflected this shift, exhibiting shorter, thicker beaks typical of urban juncos.
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Wow that is extremely fast. I wonder how many generations was it between changes.
These where the types of studies I was hoping to see after COVID
This is because the government redesigned the bird robots during the pandemic.
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They just got healthier when they weren't eating ourshitty food. Hard to believe.
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.
Fucking weak dick birds! Amiright
Did they actually become healthier? It sounds like their beak shapes just changed to adapt to what they needed to eat
Preggo birdies were eating healthy and hatched strong kids.
Source: I made it up