Down to Earth - Flightless Birds
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- They’ve given up the wonderful art of flying. Or was it an art they never possessed? The brain structure and anatomy of flightless birds indicate that they descended from "flyers" - so, why don’t they fly? Often weighing around 200 kg, over 2 meters tall and capable of reaching speeds of 70 km / h - these runners have secrets!
The largest bird in the world lives (and runs around) in Africa: the ostrich. Its slightly smaller colleague, the emu, conquered Australia. And hanging out with him down under is the dazzling cassowary. The rhea of South America comes in third in terms of size. New Zealand’s takahe, kiwi and kakapo are the smallest among the flightless. There are about 40 non-flyers around the world, including some swimmers, like the penguin.
That the birds in New Zealand forgot how to fly is perfectly understandable: for millions of years there were no enemies on the ground. There were no mammals - just birds. Colonizers brought predators into the country that made life for the non-flyers very difficult.
But why did the ostrich opt for a life on the ground? In its African habitat, there certainly were more than enough large predators. There are definitely things about ostriches that are still a mystery today. Does the ostrich know more than it’s telling us?
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Amazing and Great Documentary, Beautiful God's Creation 🤗😇
Beautiful thank you very much
Incredible documentary ...a wonderous gift to mankind
Cheers! Thanks for the great educational material. I was waiting also to see the Emu and the Rhea, Penguin etc. Maybe in a different part.
Sí, mee too and cassowaries in New Guinea
Lovely documentary ,those chicks were so cute😊
Top Natural wild very beautiful! I love very much.
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Great nature documentary, thank you so much for uploading. 💖💞
Hermoso video. Amo a las aves. Siempre que voy al campo las paso observando.
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Good movie
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Amazing. Great video.
Good upload
Beautiful..
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11.2.2023.This video already upload in free documentary nature.💋❣.Thank you.
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This was on Go Wild yesterday
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This nature is beautiful 🥰
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I love my Africa
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Beautiful nature
We loved it
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I love God and nature ❤
Roster: what are we going to do about that babysitter? The kids seems to like her more than us?
Commercials every 5 min… its maybe a-little overkill?..🤔
Yes over the top 😂🤣😅
5:27 I've never seen that type of antipope before in any other type of documentary, 🥺🥺🥺when you think you've seen it all😅👍🏾
Ostrich meat is very good stuff.
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You need to speak for your god and prophet because they cannot do it, themselves. What useless ideology
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It was not random chance that no mammals were there! The separation happened before mammals were developed. You made a great nature film, but please read more books.
Estimate say 80 mya… there were plenty of mammals 80 million years ago. Some estimates 90-95 mya. There were still lots of mammals even 95 mya… mostly they were small and rodent like but there were a bunch.
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They are huge but the king is still #LionDocu
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They didn't give up flying, it's the way God created them!!! Duh!!!☝🏾
Ok...Wow...So many thoughts about that statement. So let me get this straight. This god that you speak of... the same god that heads up the largest finance and real estate corporation in human history. The same god responsible for billions of human deaths through religious persecution, slavery, witch hunts and paedophilia. The very god that has caused more wars than opium - took out his "benevolent wrath" on an innocent animal species he created, by giving it wings and feathers - but said "You shall not Fly". Do you hear the words that spill out of your mouth? Honestly.. do you?
Important Question: What kind of a messed up God do you worship?
They talk like God don’t exist, foolish people with their egos.
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Is this fr? Or are you trolling?
It’s not like The Creator asked them ‘Hmmmm. Would you prefer not to fly? Maybe, you know do a walkabout instead-how about, speed instead of flight?’
I’m almost sure the response would have been ‘Well, you know it beats the whole being a bird purpose. But, what do I know-you’re in charge here after all.’
Then: ‘Okey-dokey then-no flying for you! Speed and aggression instead. Right.’
End of conversation.
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Is human can swallow the stone to process the food too..?😅
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There flying power got dimnished because they focused on running
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News flash !!°
GOD made them that way for reasons.... just like He made us in his image !!!
I was gonna ask if they could provide evidence that they had once flown.
Why did God let them keep their wings, if god made them without the ability to fly? There's a major flaw in your logic. News flash! You have no logic.
If humans were made in the image of God, then your god is an upright walking ape/highly modified chordate. You just destroyed your own argument with one ignorant sentence.
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Good upload