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Which characteristics of birds make them different from reptiles?
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Birds are warm-blooded.
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What characteristics do birds have that make them different from reptiles?
Birds are warm-blooded and have a high metabolic rate, walk with their legs directly beneath the body, and have a soft covering of feathers, rather than scales, over most of the body. By contrast reptiles are cold blooded with a low metabolic rate and walk with their legs out to the side (apart from snakes and legless lizards). In all, these traits of birds are actually more like those of mammals even though birds, as descendants of dinosaurs, are more closely related to modern reptiles.
Why can brids defy the law of gravity?
Birds have evolved from the same common ancestor as reptiles, they have many homologous characteristics. What makes them different however is that birds have hollow bones and many other key characteristics to make them lighter. They do not defy gravity, they are lighter and spread that light body weight over a great volume of air to support their mass.
How are birds reptiles?
The reptile clade includes the tuatara, lizards, snakes, turtles, crocodilians, and birds. Birds are considered reptiles now to make the phylogenetic tree monophyletic. Opposite to popular belief, the reptile clade is not entirely ectothermic; ( the absorption of external heat as the main source of body heat) birds are endothermic, capable of keeping the body warm through metabolism.
What birds make?
the ones that are horny
What are the sounds birds make used for?
It is for other birds to understand them and it is just how they talk to other birds when they talk to different birds officials
Can reptiles reproduce outside the species?
YES THEY WOULD MATE WITH A DIFFERENT ANIMAL (different breeds in dogs can do it so why can't reptiles)or as we humans call it, SEX and make lots of weird animals babies
Why do scientist clasify fish amphibians reptiles birds and mammals together in one group?
to stdy them differently and make charts to show differences and similarities
Would all the birds in an area make a population?
no beacause their are all different types of birds and that why it cant make up a population
Would all the birds in an area make up a population?
no beacause their are all different types of birds and that why it cant make up a population
What characteristics make Fungi different than plants?
they have different cell membrane. Ms. Amanda
Are fish classified as reptiles?
No. Fish are one of the five families of vertebrates (animals with backbones) that include fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds and mammals. Fish are similar to reptiles being cold blooded, they lay eggs, and have scales, but are different from reptiles as fish breathe through gills and live exclusively underwater, whereas reptiles breathe through lungs on land. Fish lay eggs that have thin membranes (skins) in water. Reptiles usually lay eggs with thick leathery skins on land.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BUT,fish pretty much evoled to make reptiles.so if you look at it,reptiles are like land living fish!both have scales and most lay eggs... a FISH is definitely NOT A REPTILE.... fish are in the family of fishes. and although they seem like a reptile with teeth, scales and dinosaur-like, they are completely different from reptiles like their insides, fins and skills. hope my answer helped! :)
What is a bird if is not a mammal?
it depends on what is your definition of bird. Mammals are warm blooded animals that keep their bodies warm with the heat produced from there metabolic reactions, so do birds. Dinosaurs have been found with feathers, does that make them a bird or reptile? Reptiles lay eggs as do birds (and some mammals). To clearly answer your question, birds are simply another class (aves) in the animal kingdom, just like fishes and amphibians. There are some theories as of how birds came about (the most realistic one, is that reptiles gave mammals and birds) because some reptiles (dinosaurs have been found with feathers (missing link between reptiles and birds) and some other reptiles have been found with mammal glands (missing link between reptiles and mammals).
