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Birds have hollow bones that make them lighter so they can fly more easily.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 12y agoThere aren't any. The beak is just one long piece of bone.
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∙ 7y agoBird bones are light and hollow. This allows them to fly.
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∙ 16y agosmall tiny bones.
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∙ 10y agothey have hollow bones
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What type of bones do birds have?
regular bird bones
how many bones birds has?
Majority of birds possess 25 different bones, and it depends upon type of bird species
What is pneumatized bone?
It's the same thing as a hollow bone. That's one of the characteristics birds posse than enables them to fly (if their bones had the same weight as ours, they wouldn't be able to lift). Some dinosaurs had the same type of bones. Hope it helped.
Why are planes and birds able to fly?
Birds sometimes fly because they don't want to be eaten by predators. And then there's that bird's eye view!
What type of body covering do love birds have?
Parrots are birds, and all birds have a body covering of feathers.Yes but i want the answer!!
What connective tissue makes up the skeleton?
Ligaments are connective tissues that connect bones to bones.
Do bees have bones?
no insects have bones or skeletons. They have exoskeletons made up of chitin, a type of polysaccharide, or sugar. Its similar to purpose/structure as cellulose, the stuff that makes up cell walls and makes celery crunchy
What type of bones did dinosaurs?
What type of bones did dinosurs what???
What are the differences between birds and reptiles?
birds - warm blooded have wings and have hollow bones reptiles - cold blooded or endothermic and reptiles have soild, dense bones birds- has a normal hard shelled egg reptiles- has a special type of egg
What type of skeleton does a redheaded woodpecker have?
Red headed woodpeckers have skeletal systems similar to all other small birds. Their bones are very light weight and hollow, so that they can fly, but they are strong enough to be able to stand the stress of flying, landing, and taking off.
What is pneumatization?
It's the same thing as a hollow bone. That's one of the characteristics birds posse than enables them to fly (if their bones had the same weight as ours, they wouldn't be able to lift). Some dinosaurs had the same type of bones. Hope it helped.
What kind of muscle makes human bones light?
The type of muscles that wrap around bones are typically skeletal muscles, but muscles do not make the bones light. What makes bones light are the fact that they are porous. There are a lot of holes within the bones that make it lighter, but those holes make sort of arcs and what not, similar to those in the Eiffel tower, for example. They are light weight, but very strong.
