flight adaptation Quotes

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

I don't want a be bird because birds get attacked too much. But it would be cool to fly.

The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.

But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World vultures, but biologists have come to realize that the former are related to storks, the latter to hawks, and that their resemblances result from their common lifestyle.

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.