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  3. Why don’t birds get lost on their long migratory (迁徙) flight? Scientists have

Why don’t birds get lost on their long migratory (迁徙) flight? Scientists have

游客2024-08-04  16
问题    Why don’t birds get lost on their long migratory (迁徙) flight? Scientists have puzzled over this question for many years. Now they are beginning to fill in the blanks.
   Not long ago, experiments showed that birds rely on the sun to guide them during day-light hours. But what about birds that fly mainly by night? Tests with artificial (人造的) stars have proved conclusively that certain night-flying birds are able to follow stars in their long-distance flights.
   One such bird--a warbler--had spent its lifetime in a cage and had never flown under a natural sky. Yet it showed an inborn ability to use stars for guidance. The bird’s cage was placed under an artificial star-filled sky at migration time. The bird tried to fly in the same direction as that taken by his outdoor cousins. Any change in the position of the artificial stars caused a change in the direction of his flight.
   Scientists think that warblers, when flying in daylight, use the sun for guidance. But stars are apparently their main means of directed flight in the night. What do they do when stars are hidden by clouds? Apparently, they find their way by such landmarks as mountain ranges, coast lines and river courses. But when it is too dark to see these, the warblers circle helplessly, unable to find their way.  [br] What do we know about the experimental warbler?
选项 A、It had never flown freely outdoors.
B、It was set free for the experiment.
C、It had never been placed under the sun.
D、It had lost its way in its daylight flight.
答案 A
解析 短文第三段主要介绍二项实验，第一句话就介绍用于实验的鸟类，即一种叫次嘴莺的鸟，然后介绍说这种鸟一生都在笼子里度过，从未在自然的天空中飞翔。
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