The spear-wielding stork who revolutionized science – Lucy Cooke
The spear-wielding stork who revolutionized science – Lucy Cooke
Explore ridiculous ancient theories of bird migration and discover how scientists finally solved one of the field’s oldest mysteries.
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In 1822, Count von Bothmer shot down a stork in Germany. However, the bird had already been impaled by a yard-long wooden spear. The stork had been speared in Africa and then flew over 2,500 km. This…
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It’s honestly pretty badass that a stork managed to travel that far with a spear through it. If that guy hadn’t shot it I wonder how long it would have survived.🤔
birds flying to the moon what in the moon is that
The truth of where birds go and why is even more amazing than what we could’ve thought of.
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Love Ted-Ed!!!
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Imagine being hit by an arrow but still keep flying with the thing impaled in you body, only to get shot down after your probably very painful fligth
The unluckiest stork ever
That poor stork hunted twice….
Poor stork first the spear and then the bullet
First you tell me the Earth isn't flat, and now you tell me that storks don't fly to the moon? Aaarrgh!
Another lie🙄
A really long and really painful flight that stork took.
The poor stork got speared, shot, flew thousands of miles, and paved the way for proving the theory of seasonal migration of birds…LEGENDARY, simply iconic
That stork story gave me goosebumps, that is the coolest thing I have ever heard!!!
Damn Aristotle was muscular AF!
Cartoon Aristotle is a total dilf
Africa. Is. A. Continent.
Some parts of that continent are incredibly close to Europe. So close, in fact, one could get there in a matter of minutes.
If birds are made of wood, you need to build a bridge out of them to see if they are a witch