Why do long haul flights cause divorce? | QI- BBC

Why do long haul flights cause divorce? | QI- BBC

You is it cabin pressing it’s to do with something you are particularly interested in which is birds birds oh it messes up your um internal migratory magnet in your brain I mean do you know a lot about birds I mean yeah well I know that they they

Migrate uh and we don’t quite know how they do it Fly well they do that so lots of bird species make for life but some of them get dived oh that sort of Long Haul flight a bird divorce is when a bird replaces its life partner even though they are both still alive

And one of the biggest causes is mass migration the further the birds travel the more likely they are to divorce oh so they do it during the flight that enough of you sick of you I’m I’m with Brian now can’t find each other so black tailed godwits right they got a very low

Divorce rate because they only migrate between Iceland and w West Europe so that’s the bird on the left there about 1,000 km great blue herens aren’t they beautiful they migrate over 3,000 km they got a divorce rate of a 100% literally get off the plane and say well

The I have no idea that’s not a divorce if they just can’t find each other I’ve had that happen to me at Westfield Shopping Center that’s very hard to find the way around there is it it is I I get the feeling they don’t want you to leave

Or got trapped in the car par once that was a nightmare the end of the world when all the barriers stopped working were you in a car or just standing there like that just standing the cars behind you the barri is not lifting you’re not in a car bill yeah I

Don’t I’m migrating yeah I’m

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