Why don't bats have feathers?
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Hello!
Because bats now Mammals and only Birds have feathers
because they are cleansed and with feathers would not be flugacrobates.
Because mammals rarely have feathers.
not only rarely, but never
So I have feathers…
all kinds of spring springs and and and
The question comes from a pysic work, so there must be a physical reason why feathers would be disadvantageous…
Birds with the springs increase the area where the buoyancy force acts.
However, in the case of bats, the skin is so constructed that there is already enough area.
Because it’s not birds, but mammals!
Because it’s mammals. Feathers just have birds.
…and Dinos…
And what animal is the next relative of the T-Rex today? It’s a bird. The dinos were like a transition between reptiles and birds
Probably there were also dinos with fur….
…naja is the same…
This is the classic view with orders (so to say “waagrecht” divided with the assumption of a “improvement” from step to step…)
In the (newer) cadist system (so to say perpendicular and divided at different times) the birds are a group of dinosaurs…
see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurier#Systematic_and_Phylogenese
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