American scientists will be able to predict a storm with the help of songbirds – The Jewish Times

Published 12/21/2014 15 : 04

In May 2013 started an experiment in which songbirds were equipped Batchikov geopositioning which allowed track their behavior during the storm. Indeed, the birds have a natural gift – preskazat occurrence of hurricanes.

The American scientists in the field of ornithology able to find out which animals will be able to anticipate natural disasters. It was found that songbirds, due to its unique hearing is natural “sensors” or “indicators” of the storm, which could save hundreds of lives.

Tornado for many years in a row is a natural disaster that takes no account human lives and cause enormous damage to cities and countries. Geographically, it happened that the United States is in the midst of hurricanes and annually loses dozens of its inhabitants. According to BBC , only in 2014 a tornado killed 35 people, and the total damage caused by the country, estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars. Therefore, scientists from national universities, laboratories and research centers in the US working with sweat, to learn how to predict the occurrence of hurricanes and somehow deal with them.

The result was the discovery of a fundamental analysis of the behavior of songbirds, which, in the opinion, Scientists using a “natural sensors” can anticipate a hurricane or tornado tornado. So, consider emigration songbirds from Mexico, who inexplicably flew 700 km, scientists realized that they “hear” priblezhenie disaster. The next day, in the central regions of America flew a series of deadly hurricanes that killed a dozen people.

In principle, such an event could be a coincidence, if not for one simple fact – the birds have just returned from warm to by their standards were 5 thousand. km. It is therefore logical that this class pevchik birds distinguishes the approach of a tornado through his subtle hearing, – stated ornithologists United States.

The essence of this study was to attach to the backs of birds special sensors that signal their location. So, in 2013, scientists from California chose 20 songbirds in the class Vermivora and equipped them geolokatorami. By the end of 2014, half of the birds successfully returned from migration, which is a great success, as noted by Henry Striba.

“This is a very small songbirds, whose weight does not exceed 9.10 grams, so you can truly call Miracles that 10 out of 20 were able to return home,” – said Striba in his interview with BBC.

“Based on the weather conditions, the other obvious signals, which could be guided bird, no,” – said Hewson, adding that the results of the study in a sense, “open your eyes” scientists.

At the same time, ecologists clarify that the study has an error associated with the location-based devices. Location of birds were determined by the level of illumination, rather than on the basis of satellite data. – sends Gigamir.net
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