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Why Birds Fly In a V Formation
sciencehabit writes "Anyone watching the autumn sky knows that migrating birds fly in a V formation, but scientists have long debated why. A new study of ibises — where researchers took to microlight planes and recorded birds strapped with GPS in-flight — finds that these big-winged birds carefully position their wingtips and sync their flapping, presumably to catch the preceding bird's updraft and save energy during flight."
In the northern hemisphere they actually fly in an A formation. Only in the southern hemisphere do they fly in a V.
Something to do with the Coriolis effect.
about getting funding for *my* study on why dogs lick their balls.
No, it's an anarcho-syndicalist commune. They take it in turns to act as a sort of executive lead-bird of the flight.
You shall see a cow on the roof of a cotton house.
They should also test an unladen swallow.
Better known as 318230.
European or African?
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos