RE: What ARE birds?
04-06-2016, 01:29 AM
Alligators are not birds.
True crocodiles are birds.
Gharials are not birds.
Caimans are birds!
False gharials are not birds.
American alligators are alligators, and are thus not birds.
Mugger crocodiles are true crocodiles, and are thus birds.
Spectacled caimans are caimans, and are thus birds.
Birdness is determined taxonomically, so "birds are species which _______" is a good way to think about it, yes.
True crocodiles are birds.
Gharials are not birds.
Caimans are birds!
False gharials are not birds.
American alligators are alligators, and are thus not birds.
Mugger crocodiles are true crocodiles, and are thus birds.
Spectacled caimans are caimans, and are thus birds.
Birdness is determined taxonomically, so "birds are species which _______" is a good way to think about it, yes.
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eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow