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What is the main different aspect between human and bird? Bird can fly but human don’t. Human nowadays can fly thanks to the advance technology. What I want to discuss in here is, unlike human, bird was born to fly. Now what if the bird ability to fly is taken away? Flightless bird is the result. They are still a bird they didn’t just can’t fly. Their wing bone structures aren’t well developed, it might be heavy and they lose their flying ability as they adapt to their surroundings. Although they are unable to fly but they are still have other amazing abilities like strong feet, beak, and bigger body. Here are the selection of flightless bird that will be added to your knowledge menu. Enjoy!
1. Dodo
This fatty bird is well known as Dodo bird. This turkey-sized and populating the Mauritius island. The feather of Dodo is light brown and white with their giant hooked beak. The scientist believed that Dodo is related with pigeon. Unfortunately this cute bird is already extinct since the 17th century because of their inability of fly. They are hunted for their meat until they are extinct from this world. How pity we cannot see this bird anymore.
2. Rhea
When it comes to features, shape and make, you might took it for Ostrich. Rhea, could gain a good height of 5.5ft and can weigh up to 40 kilograms. Despite the large wing span of 8.2ft, they couldn’t make it off the ground, remember, the keel, think, I told you about. They don’t have it. Other than that, they’re almost like Ostrich. Strong legs, full-fluffy wings to span while running. Long neck. The largest flightless bird, if you’d look in the American sub-continent.
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