Eli5 Why birds are able to stand on electricity cables
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Electricity is flowing from a generator, through your city/house, into the ground.
When the bird is standing on a single wire, there is nowhere for the electricity to flow to the ground so it does not get electrocuted. Anybody can do this:
It gets a little more complicated when you touch two different wires at the same time, but again this is just a matter of creating a path for flow that electrocutes you.
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