• Question: Why don't birds get electrocuted when they land on an electric wire?

    Asked by part45end to Souvik, Sabine, Maria, John, Faye on 15 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Maria McNamara

      Maria McNamara answered on 15 Nov 2019:

      In order to be electrocuted the current must flow through you, i.e. you must be in contact with the wire and the ground. Birds perching on wires aren’t in contact with the ground.

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