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How crows can sit on current wires without getting current shock?
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∙ 13y ago
Shocks are caused when an electric current is able to pass through a person/creature, as it goes from a conductor connected to (or touching) a power terminal, and returns to the power source via its return terminal. A crow can sit on a wire, and provided it doesn't touch anything else, there is nowhere for a current to go. Even so, as the line voltage for AC power goes from + to - and back again many times a second, the crow can "store" a certain amount of charge due to its capacitance. The capacitance is quite low, so these alternating currents through its legs are very small. Nevertheless, many birds can feel this current and they don't like it.
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