Eli5: How are birds able to sit on electric fences and wires and not get electrocuted?
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Electricity wants to go to ground or something with high electrical potential. So if you’re not touching the ground (or another wire), it would prefer to stay in the wire. Compared to the wire, a bird would be less conductive, so it stays on its current path. If the bird touched another wire, that would be potentially giving the current in the first wire another path.
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