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> Hyenas Hoarded Thousands of Human, Animal Bones in Saudi Arabian Lava Tube I'll admit I thought, what's that one person? But it is at least 10 Parrot 13 -
by aaron695 5y ago
> Hyenas Hoarded Thousands of Human, Animal Bones in Saudi Arabian Lava Tube
I'll admit I thought, what's that one person? But it is at least 10
Parrot 13 - 25
T. rex probably ~200 bones
Human Adult - 206
Mouse - 255
Human baby - ~300
Dog - 319
Elephant - 326–351
Blue Whale - 356
Snake 300-400, 1800 python
If you ever what to see how hard knowledge-based systems are, try and do something simple like how many bones in X. It explodes into what is a bone, we don't know, what age, is the animal docked, new theory 'we found a unknown bone'
- twic 5y agoAre you telling me a parrot only has 13 -25 bones?
- ReactiveJelly 5y agoYeah that sounds low: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ParrotSkelLyd.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ParrotSkelLyd.jpg
- aaron695 5y agoBirds bones get fused for rigidity to help for flight. Human babies bones fuse as well to go from 300 bones to 206 Chickens are easier to find - 120 May be it's wrong, but it's impossible to confirm. Birds do have less because of flight.
- dTal 5y ago"Impossible to confirm"? No. It's wrong. You googled "how many bones does a parrot have" and copied the first answer, which was wrong. This isn't some kind of scientific mystery. 13 is just not a reasonable number. The origin of "13-25" is interesting - it seems to be a commonly cited range for how many neck vertebrae birds in general have. This is the kind of category error that Google's "answer engine" is notorious for. I wonder if the author of that wrong top Google result also got it from Google...
- aaron695 5y agoI'm calling you on it. Yes I was wrong. But what is a more correct answer? How many bones in a flight'ed bird. No chickens or mostly ground based birds. Bonus points if it's a parrot, which I can't find.
- twic 5y agoAbout 130. https://twitter.com/NHM_London/status/1426121697812430848 https://twitter.com/NHM_London/status/1426121697812430848
- canadianfella 5y agoWhat does docked mean?
- Izkata 5y agoI means part/most of the animal's tail has been removed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docking_(dog) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docking_(dog)
- wombatmobile 5y agoIn humans, more than a quarter of the bones are in the foot. The number of foot bones in humans is not consistent. Some people have more, others have less. My podiatrist told me this. When I asked him about the foot bones of other mammals, such as dogs and cows, he said “Whoooah!!!”. The conversation became animated. He could hardly contain himself.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoSo you know, with the 1900 bones in their sample, they could conclusively identify ~40 individual animals, mostly equine. There were two human skull fragments.