You may always hear some myth (传言) about animals. Today, let's talk about birds. It is said that if you touch a baby bird, the parents will completely abandon (抛弃) it. Do you really believe it?
In fact, most birds have a very poor sense of smell, so in most cases, they are unable to notice the smell of humans on baby birds. Not only that, but most types of birds aren't so quick to abandon their young when they sense danger. Some birds will even do their best to protect their babies when they are in danger.
Actually, in very few cases, parent birds sometimes abandoned their nests from something touching their young, just because they noticed it by sight, not smell. When this happens, most of the parent birds usually won't care, but a few of them are a little more careful than usual. Sometimes, they may temporarily (暂时地) abandon the nest in order to better watch what will happen.
What's more, in most cases, even if the nest is destroyed by wind or something, you could create a new one and put all the baby birds back in it, and when their parents came back, they wouldn't care their baby birds were in a different nest. As long as you put the new nest near where the old one, they will find it.
