Why can birds sit on power lines and not get shocked?
Birds are able to do this because they are sitting in a single line and are not grounded. Electricity is always seeking to find a path to ground. If an animal completes this path to ground, they will be electrocuted. By sitting on one wire at a time, the birds, or other animals, are only touching the energized part and are not providing a path to ground for the electricity to go through them.
Updated 11/14/2019 9:06 AM