> “You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.”
J B S Haldane
https://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy3221/spring10/HaldaneRig...
Also, of course, many birds do die.
> “You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.”
J B S Haldane
https://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy3221/spring10/HaldaneRig...
Also, of course, many birds do die.