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[-] IonAddis@lemmy.world 60 points 2 years ago

Technically...birds are bipedal all the time. They went about it very differently though.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

Birds have optimized for minimum weight tho, so they can afford to only have 2 limbs supporting the entire body

[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 6 points 2 years ago

Have you seen their legs though? They dont look sufficient at all, especially taller birds which stand in the water often have insanely thin legs

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Keep in mind that most of the bird's visible body volume is just fluff

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Birds like egrets and herons rarely weigh more than a few pounds. Even the red-crowned crane, a five foot tall bird, caps out at about twenty pounds. An average nine-month-old human weighs that but is only a foot and a half tall. Flighted birds are crazy light.

[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

Wow, that is indeed crazy. I knew birds were light, but that's still impressive

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

They're also dinosaurs, so definitely not mammals.

[-] K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

haha got me there should have said mammals

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