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German scientists prove birds can sleep while flying
TheLocal.de ^ | 03 Aug 2016 15:59 GMT+02:00 | (DPA/The Local)

Posted on 08/03/2016 3:44:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai

This odd habit by our feathered friends has long been theorized, but now German scientists say they have definitive proof for the first time ever. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute in Seewiesen, Bavaria, announced on Wednesday that they had proved for the first time that birds can fly while sleeping and still stay aloft.

The researchers were able to monitor the brainwaves and movements of great frigate birds from the Galapagos Islands, whose airborne journeys may last for months. They strapped devices to the heads of female birds to measure brain activity over the course of ten days. […]

Sometimes the birds were in a way half asleep: one hemisphere of their brains would be awake to detect potential threats with the respective eye open. […] But the birds were also at times able to keep both brain hemispheres asleep without crashing. …

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: birds; birdssleep; frigatebirds; sleepflying

1 posted on 08/03/2016 3:44:08 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

....now when ya broadside a duck you can say he was sleeping


2 posted on 08/03/2016 3:46:56 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Olog-hai

So that’s why they slam into the sliding glass doors and windows.


3 posted on 08/03/2016 3:49:33 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Olog-hai

American TV cameras prove liberals sleep while other liberals are talking.

Bubba : Hillary : : Ginsburg : Obama


4 posted on 08/03/2016 3:50:55 PM PDT by nickedknack
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To: Olog-hai

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........
5 posted on 08/03/2016 4:00:10 PM PDT by ETL (God help America...asap)
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To: Olog-hai

As long as airline pilots don’t do the same, we should be fine.


6 posted on 08/03/2016 4:07:37 PM PDT by floozy22 (Paul RINO Ryan 2016: "In the bag for The Hag")
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To: Olog-hai

and pigeons can fly, sleep, and sh*t on you all at the same time


7 posted on 08/03/2016 4:07:45 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: Olog-hai

Some pilots think this.


8 posted on 08/03/2016 4:14:40 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Olog-hai

spend another, say, $50 million of taxpayer money....
and maybe they can prove
how pigeons
can fly, sleep, and shiit ... all 3 at the same time


9 posted on 08/03/2016 4:17:11 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: Olog-hai

spend another, say, $50 million of taxpayer money....
and maybe they can prove
how pigeons
can fly, sleep, and shiit ... all 3 at the same time


10 posted on 08/03/2016 4:17:17 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: Robert DeLong

They ought to issue them summonses for that: FWI, Flying While Impaired


11 posted on 08/03/2016 5:13:35 PM PDT by ETL (God help America...asap)
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To: Olog-hai

Heck. I can sleep while working.....


12 posted on 08/03/2016 6:42:09 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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