Alt text: a bird calmly sitting on an electrical wire, but there’s an arrow going straight trough its body. The caption says: “Until death, all defeat is psychological”
Alt text: a bird calmly sitting on an electrical wire, but there’s an arrow going straight trough its body. The caption says: “Until death, all defeat is psychological”
Had other places already figured out the bird migration theory?
Some places had, I know in Oceania (I want to say Hawaii?) some islands have oral history about how they found the island they live on by following bird migration. The story is actually pretty wild, they rowed out as far and as fast as they could to try to follow the birds, but obviously birds fly faster than people row. So each year they navigated back out to the last spot the had seen the birds last year, waited for them to show up, and rowed like the dickens until they were out of sight again. It must have been an incredible feat to witness, especially when they finally made it to the island they’d spent years trying to locate, based only on the knowledge the birds had to be going somewhere.
It was specifically stork migration. The fact that some birds migrate was known many places, I’d guess deep into prehistory.