Myth: Pelicans go blind after years of diving for food
01/01/07 00:00 Filed in: Science
Does the method of feeding
eventually lead pelicans to go blind?
Myth
Pelicans fish for food by diving to the water at high speed. But the
Reality
With the exception of the Pink Floyd album of the same name, the idea of the “dark side of the moon” is totally erroneous.
Of course, that doesn’t actually stop film makers representing it as dark.
The reality is that the term “dark side” only really refers to our understanding of the nature of the moon. In space, the “far side”, as it should really be known, gets equal if not greater solar rays upon it’s dusty grey surface.
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