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| Flightless chickens | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 16 2010, 02:42 PM (840 Views) | |
| ItHasTeeth | Apr 16 2010, 02:42 PM Post #1 |
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Anyone else think it would be possible for feral chickens to become large flightless animals (probably of the savanna, much like an ostrich)? |
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| El Squibbonator | Apr 16 2010, 02:56 PM Post #2 |
The Third Child
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Yes! In fact, I have several flightless ratite-like descendants of domestic chickens in the Neozoic! |
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| Bexi | Apr 16 2010, 04:18 PM Post #3 |
not a Transhuman
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flightless chickens are possible at isolated islands,there was giant megapode(sylviornis) tall as adult man,but they went extinct after humans arrive to new caledonia |
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| Pando | Apr 16 2010, 08:25 PM Post #4 |
Obey or I'll send you to the moon
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Chickens are almost flightless though. Not a big switch. |
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| Bexi | Apr 17 2010, 01:03 AM Post #5 |
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not a Transhuman
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yeah,but they are defenseless,so they survive only at isolated islands.I dont think that chidkens survive for example in europe..stoats,martens,cats and foxes,they kill chicken very easy |
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| Pando | Apr 17 2010, 02:01 AM Post #6 |
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Obey or I'll send you to the moon
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I guess. Losing flight will stop its best defense of predators. |
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| Margaret Pye | Apr 25 2010, 09:52 PM Post #7 |
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Some breeds of domestic chicken are fairly capable of self-defence - bantams, for example. Although those do tend to be the breeds that are best at flight. On the other hand, it sounds entirely plausible to take a bantam, subject it to pressures for larger size, have it compensate for worse flight with faster running, and eventually wind up with an ostrich. |
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| Pando | Apr 25 2010, 10:24 PM Post #8 |
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Obey or I'll send you to the moon
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Well, isn't that how ratites evolved? But Bantams are small chickens. |
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| MitchBeard | May 2 2010, 10:44 AM Post #9 |
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Bantams are about as close as domestic chickens get to the ancestral jungle fowl.
You're right, they probably wouldn't survive in europe. But neither would a lot of other tropical species. They'd probably do well enough in Central or South America, and I know there are wild populations in Northern Australia |
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| SIngemeister | Nov 24 2010, 04:04 PM Post #10 |
Hive Tyrant of the Essee Swarm
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Gamecocks (that is, chickens used for cockfights) would have a pretty good chance. They are vicious, and incredibly territorial. I saw one drive a sheepdog off |
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| Nimor | Nov 27 2010, 04:29 AM Post #11 |
Pteranodon
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What would be the point of flightless chickens? They don't fly really well, so it won't be a big jump in technology. As for the subject how to do it, I bet they can invent some sort of serum that they can inject into the chickens, which will destroy their wings, making them unable to fly, as much as they can. |
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| Dark-Matter | Nov 27 2010, 08:55 PM Post #12 |
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Here is an idea of flightless chicken evolution: http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=speculative%20biology&order=9&offset=48#/d2eunzu |
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