Re: poultry
- From: Ron O <rokimoto@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:49:56 -0700
On Oct 1, 10:17 pm, RichD <r_delaney2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Let's look at flightless birds. How the heck did
they survive this long? What good are wings
on a chicken?
They are fat, slow, weaponless, lack camoflouge,
and can't fly. Any mammal which spotted a
turkey, his eyes would light up like neon:
"CHICKEN MCNUGGETS!"
You call that natural selection?
I think this proves Darwin was wrong, and God exists.
--
Rich
Read Beebe's account of Junglefowl in his monograph about pheasants.
He observed Green Junglefowl flying to islands off on the horizon from
the beach to roost at night. Red Junglefowl were brought to the US as
gamebirds, but they never amonted to something anyone would want to
shoot. The Brits like to shoot them in India. Normal standard sized
chickens can still fly. They also use their wings to accelerate on
the ground and aid in balance and turning. The wings are also used in
fighting. There seem to be four species of gallus wandering around in
the wild, so they passed the tests so far. Gee by comparison there is
only one species of Homo still around they must be real losers. They
can't fly, they are weak muscled, their nearest relatives can tear
their arms off and beat them to death with them. In another thread
they commented on how the eyes were going.
A lot of traits are selected for and against, you have to look deeper
and not pop off out of ignorance before you can figure out why some
species makes it and others don't. Sometimes it is just bad luck, a
lot of times we just don't know the answer.
Ron Okimoto
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