• Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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    3 months ago

    If people had wings and could fly it would be considered exercise and nobody would do it.

    • Akasazh@feddit.nl
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      3 months ago

      If you look at birds like the kakapo, they would’ve had flight in the evolutionary past, but evolved out of it due to lack of predatory threat.

      This can be part of Island syndrome, where the dodo also suffered from, till sailors came around and found out they were tasty.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 months ago

      this is literally how it works for birds, that’s why you see especially pidgeons and corvids walking so often, they just don’t need to fly a lot so they simply walk.