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Are you telling me a parrot only has 13 -25 bones?
by twic 5y ago
Are 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