Why don't birds get electrocuted on power lines?
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
- Have you ever wondered why birds can safely sit on electrical wires whereas humans get electrocuted if they try to touch them?
The reason why has a lot to do with how electricity flows. Watch this video to find out the answer.
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They dont get electrocuted because they are flying robots that recharge by sitting on power lines
This is exactly where I thought the video was going in the first 30 seconds. "What magical ability do they have?"
Yes. Because they are government drones.
@@3bigbignig-abandoned sure.... 😂
@@TheExoticCerdos 😂
Lol
Respect for the bird who took part in the demonstration in the name of science. She will be retweeted.
If I recall correctly, there’s an extended version of that video, and the bird is fine after all
🤣🤣🤣
Leave the premises
F
Birb
2:56 for those of you wondering why these guys are touching two wires and are still alive, the wires are at the same potential. This is a three-phase circuit with 2 wires per phase, and the two wires conduct the exact same current with the exact same voltage, so it's basically like touching two different parts of a very thick wire
Jou are taking this too seriously...!
True
Same potential
Three phase voltages are not the same potential, they are each 60 degrees out of phase so you are wrong. If the bird is standing on two wires simultaneously which I doubt (birds are small and wires are never placed only inches apart with thousands of volts on them) then the wires are probably not hot, maybe ground wires, cable or something else. If you touch two wires of a three phase system on a power pole, you'd be going to see the angels, so would a bird!
@@minerran he's not touching two different phases, he's touching two wires of the same phase, there are 6 wires total
I can still remember being really young, maybe 4 or 5, walking with my grandma and asking her, “why can the birds sit on the wire?” Her reply: “they have special feet.”
Was thinking down the same line. GOD made them UNIQUE.
😆!
i know old people relating everything with god
Translation: I don't know either, young'un!
@@bamf6603 I know, right?
I feel so bad for laughing at that bird that just went drop
Same lol
Same, lmao.
don't worry, it survived. got stunned but flew away in less than half a minute
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@@GraveUypo thx
@@GraveUypo i thought it was lights out for sure
Imagine being this badass sitting on powerlines and shitting on humans
I can only dream
😄😂😂
@Zephyrean is that all you got? And stop liking your own comment ffs
@@highconnery472 watch out, hes the type of guy to correct a youtube comment due to one mistake
@@highconnery472 Nice name
As a bird, this safety video has been very informative.
You’re not real
I'm going to go out on a limb (no pun intended) and guess that you typed your comment using the "hunt and peck" method.
@@josorr,
No, they have their hooman servants type for them.
Note: while electrons do move between the power source and your device, if you had to wait for them to travel that whole distance to get a charge, you would be waiting a very, very long time.
Instead, the energy comes from the electrons already inside your device being accelerated by the electric field.
The circuit simply decides the shape and size of the electric field
shocking!
A/c current flows at 60 times throughout the sinewave per second....aka 60 hertz ...so that's not really a long time
@@mikemacdonald2032 that's not the rate of electrons passing through the current...
Also i have a question!
If the birds sit on the same wire with equal potential so the charges do no flow through their body
So can I also sit on the same live wire and do not get shock? Since i am sitting on same potential wire too...
@@transistorsloop a bird sitting on a power line is safe because it's only touching the wire. If it were to peck the wooden post while sitting on the wire, the bird would be treated as part of the circuit, causing the electrons in its body to move and electrocuting it.
This happens because the electrons "bump" into its atoms and transfer energy to them.
If an electric wire could hold a human's weight, it would still be very difficult for someone to climb onto it without touching anything else at the same time, but not impossible.
I love how they straight up showed us a clip of a bird getting electrocuted.
He just said. pce
Was that not from the wires touching each other
@@jaydenfrancis6467 They still got electrocuted lol. While most people don't know why birds don't get shocked they also don't know how birds would get shocked.
@@RonanTetsu I didn't take that in tbh
That bird was dead quicker than instantly !
In the 50s, as a boy I knew of a farmer that was a self taught electrician. He did odd jobs for farmers in the area. He would always show up for the job with a case of beer, which he would stand on while working. In those days they were made of heavy duty cardboard and glass bottles which you would return for credit. He said it made a very good insulator and you could always drink the beer.
When sizing up a large job he would say "Well, thats a lot of beer!"
Legend
He's right regarding the bottles as insulators: They're even in use today since 1745 as "Leyden Jars" which are excellent capacitors for high voltage appliances. They are extremely sturdy against high voltage, made out of cheap material and don't degrade over time unlike electrolytic capacitors which tent to bloat'n'blow.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyden_jar
What a god
"" Miller Time ""
How was life in the 50s without smart phones sir. Do you think humans were smarter? Better in arithmetic or had better memory than now. Do you think smart phones made us dummies comparably. What would you say changed?
Workers who repair power lines are literally heroes
Just like my mom and dad.😊
idk why I thought he was gonna say "To understand that, we must first become one with the birds."
I thought he was gonna say "to understand that, we need to talk about parallel universes."
Sounds like a working method
@@donutello_ **vsauce music starts**
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It would have made more sense than the error filled science talk that followed.
I'll remember this when i become a bird
Here at 15 likes. I'm the 15th
Me too i plan to become one with the doves one day and fly off into oblivion
HSHSHJKAGAHAJHAJAHSJAHSJWDKA
good luck bro, I was a bird too before I got reincarnate into this ugly human being. My life was so much fun, hope you will too :)
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I suffered and survived 3 massive electrical discharges at the Washington DC VA hospital. I lost memory of the event for 4 years, lucky to be alive!!!
Wow! Can't imagine how much that hurts 🤕!!!!
The most I can relate to is that I've been discharged from a hospital in 2022!!!
Hope you have recovered well!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I worked for a local power company for 30 years before I retired 3 years ago. I can say yes the bucket trucks are insulated from the bucket to about 15 foot down the neck. I can also say that you will feel a shock though minor if you touch the wire without high voltage gloves on.
Thanks for your selfless work when storms hit and everyone is crying.
@@terrylandess6072 Now that I have retired I've joined the cry babies...ha!
How do you know which wire to fix in Manila Philippines?
@@HighStakesDanny I'm not familiar with the equipment Manila has such as fuses, fault finders which hangs on the line. The easiest way is to see the wire broken (mostly falling trees here) and laying on the ground with the fuse barrel open. (hanging down).
I was here from the video - "Birds make transformer explode in *Houston*"
Me too ,another recommendation
Same
same
Lol ahahahahhah
It is their form of revenge for Not putting up feeders.
someone argued with me that the bird had rubber boots.
Their skin is less conductive than humans.
Yes that's true.
At a semiconductor plant where I worked a maintenance worker didn't put the lockout/tagout on the switch while he was working. A coworker turned it on and one of his arms got fried as the current moved through his body his other arm and one of his legs blew apart. Bless him he died from his injuries after 3 days and a couple of people got fired.
The electrons don't travel from the power plant to your house, that would be the case if it were DC (direct current) which is bad for long distances, instead it's AC (Alternating Current) meaning the electrons move back and forth in the wire (like you would use a saw)
The waves of voltage travel across the ocean of electrons in the wire just like the waves on the surface of the ocean.
So each wire has its own AC wave?
DC is not bad for long distances (its actually better, look up high voltage DC lines), DC is only harder to transform to a higher or lower voltage, AC can be transformed using transformers which is the main reason why AC is used.
Because they always pay their "bill" on time ?
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My reaction👆
So you wanna make puns huh?
Well, toucan play that game
@@josephstalin364 so I guess its my "tern" now ?
@@barry7607 Say watt?
2:18 Props for using that Home Alone clip
I noticed that too! He eventually won a prize for robbing! A free ride in a police car!
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Yaay, you just answered one of things that have bugged me everytime I see those birds sitting on the wires. Awesome!
Short and informative.
Thanks for the video!
"They still need to make sure they only touch one wire at a time though"
Next clip:
*electricians crawling on two wires at a time*
I noticed it too
ikr
Those are parallel conductors of the same phase - no difference in potential.
@@matthewkuhl79 thanks for that, figured there was some reason behind it and it was safe... just kinda bad timing with the edit for those who are not in the know lol
@@frstnme316 i don't consider it _safe,_ but safe in the sense of getting shocked i guess. Medium voltage and above terrifies me 😬
1:33 the way the bird folded 💀
Drone malfunctioning
Great video. Thank you!
Yes, as an Electrician I have touched 120v electrical lines, but there are some tricks involved.
First you can be grounded. Electricians never used aluminum ladders because aluminum conducts electricity, and would ground you. Electrician use fiberglass ladders, which don't conduct electricity.
Also you don't touch the other 120v line or the neutral line.
The outlets in American homes are 120v three wires hot, neutral, and ground. Don't play with electric a small current can stop your heat instantly. Then elec. stoves, HVAC, Clothes Dryer, water heaters use 240v. Again if you don't know much about it do not play with electric it can kill
@@antonkemperjr4128 The secret is to learn. Always work with one hand, when you think the wire might be hot. Why? because if one hand is ground and the other is touching a hot wire then the current goes thru you heart.
220v is 120v +120v, there is no neutral on 220v, but the 120v conductor must be on another phase.
This gets a little complicated. You have to study about phases.
At the power plant, the generator has 3 phases or 3 taps
Thanks for this informative video.
Hello there
Greetings
Thank you for thanking them for this informative video.
@@JoblessMusic thank you for thanking them for thanking them for this informative video
@@dylanh609 thank you for thanking them for thanking them for thanking them for this informative video.
That's cool and all but is no one gonna talk about the poor bird at 1:31
I feel bad for laughing at the bird
Dont feel bad its alive
@RainFall how does feeling bad for a bird getting electrocuted relate to veganism? There is literally no mention of eating meat or birds in the video or this comment
I watched the full video, it was stunned for a bit but flew off perfectly fine
@@stighma person they replied to probably deleted their comments. They commented a month ago too. :|
Very informative, thanks for sharing.
This video gave me a total appreciation for bird 🐦 brain information.
I remember watching a squirrel running along a wire in elementary school. It went near the pole and all the sudden a big smoky flash and he fell to the street. Knocked out power to a few blocks! We had to stay outside because the school wouldn’t let us in without working lights. We had like a 1 hour lunch break, it was sick
That does sound sick. And also funny.
RIP Squirrel
Your sacrifice shall be remembered
f you squirrel
@@seriouslyman2611 squirrel lives matter
Yo i literally watched that bird that bites the electrical wire a minute ago
Very interesting. I have always been scared that they will get electrocuted when I see them on power Lines.
in Maryland we have ospreys all over the place on cell towers on top of wooden electrical lines , they used to be just in the bay on specially designed platforms for them now they are growing in population
Interesting
Ano ginagawa mo dito
@Buraison 🔫 there you go
Noooo
@@chrisgreece732 lol what do you mean “no”
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Wow! The best explanation of how electricity flows for anyone who didn’t work with it.The more you know about something, the less scary it is and more predictable but electricity is still one of those things you MUST respect no matter how much you think you know about it.
Electricity doesent flow in power lines its from what ive read the electromagnetic field created when the circuit is conected that allows the energy dto flow.
@@thebreifcaseman269 That's right, the video has it all wrong in that respect. Electrons don't flow the way described.
I seen a bird one day and it was sitting on a wire I stopped looked up at it and started to talk to it we had one of the greatest conversations ever!
I heard about this on Twitter. The bird gave you a positive review in its tweet.
I was sad to hear a Canada Goose fly into a power line once. The sound was so loud, my friend, me, and other people crossing the street were very startled. It was sad to see the goose loose its struggle once he or she was on the ground. There was what looked like a burned hole in the bird's chest. That's a completely different scenario from your video but it was really startling.
Very informative video, surprised this doesn't have more views.
It doesn’t have more views because it takes the brain of a cow to understand the concept.
There is your answer. It's informative. That's why less views
Realy informative video, it answered allnmy questions.
Because we already know.
how do you not know this?!??
One day this will be in everyone's recommended and it'll get like 2+ million views over night.
Ok
Ok
Also maybe that's now?
Ok
But how's Reimu?
True
I was here.
Amazing! This was something that always intrigued me. Why birds do not get electrocuted while sitting on the power line
A Faraday cage is a good idea. When we worked on live high voltage this cage came in very handy.
Every bird should have one
1:33 from alive to dead in a second
edit: i saw the longer version of the video, it actually didn't die, it was stunned
@Onkar Jadhav i found that hilarious
there are two types of people in the world
@@richie3602 bro im not cold. i just find it funny, the way it fell down.
Poor bird.
@@haseebejaz don't worry, it probably didn't feel a thing
2:30 these guys are masters beyond measure. They have balls of steel.
YOU have brains of OATMEAL....
Maybe, but more likely balls of a less conductive substance, lol.
In short:
Electricity is a term used to describe the flow of electrons through a medium with either a uniform electrical potential or a different electrical potential. When a conductor that is not attached to something else touches a medium having uniform electrical potential, the flow of electrons remains within the loop as there is no other electrical potential to travel to. But if a conductor is, say, attached to the ground, then electricity will flow from the higher potential to the lower potential through it.
The curiosity has been killing me for years now i know thank you you have earned a sub
1:31 Bird: Aight imma head out. 💀⚰️
Doudymac 🤣
Rip 😔
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An information video that gets straight to the point while remaining under 10 mins. You earned a sub, sir.
Now I see why electricians who work for the city get paid as much as $100 an hour just on straight time
In my country, civet cats usually climb and travel via the wires in urban areas. They never seemed to get electrocuted as well.
A lot of those wires are communications cables, not electric wires
@@evilsharkey8954 and they are insulated.
Ground or return circuit has to come within several feet of the power line to complete the circuit on a dry day. Heavy humidity can increase that distance due to conductive impurities suspended in the air. This applies to anything in contact with the wire, like a bird sitting on it too.
This question was in mind in years and thank you for making this clear to me.
This is the most ask question during the first week of semester in an Electrical/Mechanical Engineering degree course
I was asking my parents this question a few months ago about how does birds stand on the power lines with feeling the electricity on there feet when they stand on it.
Really interesting. I learnt something from the new. Thanks
A must watch video for all the birds,
Pet owners should educate their birds to spread awareness
Thanks for the info
Ok?
Sir Knight Errant ok?
@@naif9464 ok?
@@sidneyasiegbu ok?
Ok
I actually saw a pigeon got electrocuted by powerlines on a rainy day, probably the raindrops from its flapping wings caused it to connect to 2 lines at once. The sparks and noises were quite phenomenal.
Sweet, a dinner AND a show!
@@killtie15 that's what my cat would think
I once saw a squirrel bridge two wires. I remember a loud pop and it fell to the ground dead as a door nail. Didn't even twitch.
1:49 *Chuckles* I'm in danger
2:30 my mans really almost got hit with force lightning and just looks calm asf lmao
Don't worry he also has the force to push it back
Thank you for sharing.
I love videos that attract intelligent conversations, rather than a bunch of trolls looking for a stranger to fight with.
This is one of my deepest teenage questions to which nobody I know gave a good answer. Thank you for finally putting my question to rest.
Now you can rest peacefully
Why did electrons didn't went through bird?
Cuz electrons don't want to take a U turn to come in same path or what😂?
Except it's not true the electrons move along the power line to your home. It's better understood as a ripple along a jumping rope.
@@valandhol9four680 or a pulse in a stretched slinky.
Plot twist:
You are a bird, watching this to understand why you don't get electrocuted while chilling on power lines with your homies.
More like pov:
That's not a plot twist. I already knew I was a bird
Yep.
nah my homie got electrocuted the other day and now i wanna know how he died. Us birds are weak in physics.
Am a bird reading comments to gain more insights.😂
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I've always wondered about this since I was a kid.
2:02 my man got some really cool moves 😂
Very well explained. Thank you to whoever put this together
as a kid in el salvador i remember birds sleeping in the electric wires (usulutan alameda) i remember seeing a few dead on the pavement
Ur explaination was really osm thanku so much for this concept👍👍
I remember asking my high school physics teacher the question if a person can hang from a power line and avoid electrocution as long as they remain off the ground. He said it's also dependent on the "potential difference". I don't remember the explanation as he gave it to me, but what my brain stored is basically that you can't just hover 1cm off the ground while holding onto a high voltage line and expect not to get fried. So it's not just a simple matter of "as long as I don't touch the ground I'll be fine".
Of course. Just because a material is an insulator doesn't mean electrons cant flow through it. Air itself isn't a conductor (luckily), but as you see, the worker at 2:30 is making the current flowing through air. Simply put, everything is a conductor when the voltage is high enough. Even things like glass or rubber. And thats why materials can also be "half conductors" and having a millimetre thick layer of rubber doesn't save you from getting shocked.
Without a doubt. There's way too many variables. For example, things that are in your person, type of cloth, rings, what's on the ground as well, a million things. There's no black and white type situation where if u don't do this, then x thing won't happn, etc etc
Yeah it's not as clear cut. The rule of thumb is that 30kV per cm of air is necessary to have a current flow through it. But once the air gets ionized, the channel is open and it may expand further. Also in the real world, a bird is not at the same potential when it comes into contact with the live wire. It will take a bit of transient current for the charges in the bird body to equalize with the line. Good example is with linemen working on HV transmission lines from helicopters, they first connect to the line a rod connected to the helicopter body before working on it. At these high voltages the transient current is visible on camera as the rod approaches from the line. Same with AC (even with no load) on a power line, there is always some capacitance to the wire because a real-world wire, of course having a non-zero volume, necessarily stores some charge at any point. That's why we have reactors to correct that in substations (among other sources of reactance in the system). DC power may not seem to have that issue as the potential is constant, but in the real world no regulator is perfect and a AC component is always present. We have all these nice abstractions we can understand with these fancy elegant circuits diagrams, but there is always more to it...
so if my feet are 2m above the ground i'm safe ?
It’s as long as there isn’t a voltage difference. Electricity likes taking the path of least resistance.
I've wondered this my whole life. Thank you
Great video!
0:53 It's just completely wrong. Electrons move from lower electrical potential to a higher one, not the other way around. It's true that the movement of electrons is what makes the current flow. But the general convention is that the current flows opposite to the flow of elections i.e. current flows from higher potential to a lower one. If electrons moved from higher potential to a lower one, then that would make the higher potential negatively charged. But in reality, it's always the positively charged terminal that has the higher potential.
I asked this question to the science teacher in my 9th standard 2011....after 10 years I am getting satisfactory answer. Thanks to youtube🙏
very educational and easy to understand. Thanks for the great vid.
The only easy video I found in youtube and google. Thanks for the video. I understood nothing from books.
I have learnt something new today. Thank you😊
Thank you so much for your brief explanation to this mystery... Love your unique way of explaining each point that even a child can understand... Thanks much
Not understand, explain me a bit the reason in ease way why electrocution in birds not happen though electricity conducted by cables???
@shahabuzafarzubaer6919 ,
Different materials conduct electricity differently. There's a reason why we use metal like copper to conduct it, rather than bone.
What I gather is the birds still conduct a little electricity, but not enough to hurt them. In rare instances they do get electrocuted though.
The clip at 1:51 is a bit misleading. The very high voltage lines shown are actually dangerous for birds to land on and you won't see birds on them (they feel pain as they get close to the wire and avoid landing on it - usually - although sometimes they do get killed). The wires with birds on them in this clip are so-called "shield wires" and they are grounded. Their purpose is to help prevent direct lightning strikes to the power lines (the lightning will usually strike the grounded, higher shield wire instead). The reason why very high voltage (>100,000 V) lines are a problem for birds is that all objects, including birds, have a property called capacitance. The capacitance is bigger when the object is bigger. Since these (and almost all) lines are alternating current, connecting a capacitive load allows a small current flow (essentially electrons flow into and back out of the object on each cycle of the AC). The higher the voltage, the more current flow. A typical residential street high voltage line (about 10,000 V) isn't high enough voltage to affect the birds but large cross-country lines (typically 300,000 V) are a problem.
Hi, simple and well done!!!
Thank god now I can watch this video I was looking for it
Thanks for the interesting insight on electrical engineering
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2:04 When your crush passes by
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Lmao
The house where I grew up had a power line in back. On several occasions a bird sitting on the wire or the transformer got electrocuted and landed in our back yard.
Thanks for the video bud.
I was always intrigued about this and I got this video recommended.
Thanks CZcams! 😀
Because google is scanning your brain and monitoring your thoughts.
Allow me to correct a crucial mistake you made in your video about no current flowing through birds sitting on the single power line phase: Are you aware of the step voltage? When a current flows through a loop regardless of its length a certain differential loss is always present. That's why a bird on the power line represents a high-value resistor hooked up in parallel to the line it sits on unless it lifts one leg off and detaches the connection ( open circuit ). A barely noticeable amount of current also flows through its body, but no where nearly enough to be even noticed ( if at all ). Another dangerous situation takes place upon being near a thunderstorm when a lightning bolt strikes the earth at this point of time. The current flowing through the ground spreads 360° outwards. The further more out it flows, the more the voltage drops. That drop in voltage in relation to the distance from the starting point is a dangerous matter. A person walking nearby suddenly feels that voltage difference shooting through his/her legs, causing it to instantly feel uncomfortable and eventually collapsing. That's why it is important to keep both feet tight together in order to keep that crucial voltage difference as low as possible. Wether the voltage difference varies depends upon the earth conductivity in dry or wet condition. Also the amount of minerals and salt in the soil are a contrubiting factor in regards of the dirt chemistry.
Perfect knowledge, when i apply job interview they asked me why birds don't get electricity on their body, I exactly explain that in your way. They little bit shocked but they liked my answer. I got magnetic field course. Thanks to this course :)
Yes! yes! I knew that was the case, but no one mentions it. Very good day to you sir!
What does “dirt chemistry” mean?
@@MCAlexisYT what chemicals are in the dirt.
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That went right over my head lol
Here where I live only high current cables are on mast above the ground, low current cables runs underneath the ground.
So, if I end up hanging on a power line, I'll be fine as long as I don't touch the ground while I'm doing that. Got it.
Nor another wire
Rip
Yes. But will die after falling down.
Yes. You'd be fine.
2 seconds to read 3 minutes to spell out.
for a very time, i have been thinking because they have scales under their feet, they serve as insulators to prevent current flow.thanks for this piece
How heavy birds with small wings can fly up to power lines in the first place is more intriguing.
Or how hummingbirds can stay in the same spot
Marvelous to know. Tnk u.
In conclusion: birds really do be playin with they lives 😫
Interesting
They really do be edg-
That describes the term, "birdbrain".
What happens if a one legged bird lands on the wire
Nothing would happen regarding current flow, as there has to be a complete circuit. However, if it had two legs and both feet were touching the same wire, then a current would flow through the bird but it would be so small that it wouldn’t feel it...
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True the plug lol 😂😂😂
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@@Peter-976 Longer, actually. Comments don't delete. 😉
I saw a video about storchs, big birds that migrate from Europe to Africa and back. One of these birds was electrocuted on a wire along the way. So, sometimes birds cannot stant on electrical wiring.
wow thats electrifying
I finally got the answer, all these years I been wondering thanks!!
But what if a human being touches an electric wire with one or both of his hands without actually touching the ground... I think he would still get electrocuted... This video explains what happens to birds, without explaining what happens to humans and why.
@@ContendersUTube Well, if I understand the video, which it's possible that I don't, if we could stand on the wire like birds, we wouldn't get shocked. The closest example of this is at the end of the video, where the guy is going across 2 wires on his hands and knees. He is wearing protective gear though, and that reduces his potential to get shocked.