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Why Don't Birds Get Electrocuted When They Land on Electric Wires?

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Birds are able to sit on electrical power lines because the electrical current essentially ignores the bird's presence and continues to travel through the wire instead of through the bird's body. A bird's body is not a good conductor of electricity.

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