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Birds 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 i
by aaron695 5y ago
Birds 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