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>Contrary to popular belief, birds originated in the mesozoic and coexisted with non-avian dinosaurs for most of their existence, still beaten into submission by non-avian dinosaurs and pterosaurs
>Survivied, but were the hardest hit group by the KT extinction and took millions upon millions of years to recover, while mammals and reptiles quickly recovered
>Never achieved dominance in any ecosystem they've established and were always BTFO'd by mammals and reptiles (superior representatives of sauropsida)
>Large flightless birds often lose their wings and become weird and inept armless bipeds, instead of turning their wings back into arms or falling on all fours like a real dinosaur would
>Inefficient takeoff, the largest bird that flew wasn't even half the size of quetzalcoatlus the largest flying animal
>Over ten thousand species, but 60% of them are generic perching birds, often with ridiculous names like "Pileated Titpecker" or something like that, the definition of quantity over quality
>Poster child of falling victim to invasive species
>Factory-farmed by the millions in order to keep humanity well-fed
>The only reason they're successful is because they're the only significant flying animals, they sucked at every single terrestrial niche they ever tried
Despite what ornithocuckologists might tell you and the factoid that they are the only living dinosaurs, nothing changes the fact that birds are nature's biggest losers
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>>5156Can't hold objects award
No opposable thumbs award
Vantablack plumage award
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>>5158They would basically become dragons
№5784
>>5382At least lizards have hands, birds have no functional hands so they have no way to grab objects other than biting them, literal disabled creatures
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>>5784retard nigga have you never seen a single video of a parrot
they have two feet which can hold shit and they can stay on one foot
also they manage to do a similar amount of shit as apes even though the ape has hands and thumbs
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>>5382>LizardsMonitor lizards are significant predators to both nests and birds
>CrocodilesLiterally the top of the food chain apex predators. You can't name a single bird that can take out a non-juvenile one.
>SnakesLike monitors, large constrictors or venomous snakes can take out birds. There's a good amount of snakes that have birds take up a significant part of their diet
>Turtles Surprisingly, birds aren't even safe from large turtles. Snapping Turtles are one of the most notorious waterfowl predators from ducklings to herons.