@bgriffin wrote:
I did a shop today at a gas station and there were like 257 pigeons walking around the parking lot. I suppose I could have caught one and then I would have had a flying rat's ass to give?
Did you fail zoology in college? Pigeons are birds and rats are mammals.
"Although both birds and mammals are warm-blooded vertebrates, mammals are in the class Mammalia and birds are in the class Aves. Differences between the two include the following:Mammals have an outer covering of skin, fur or hair, while birds have a covering of feathers.With the exception of the two monotremes, the platypus and echidna, mammals gve birth to live young, whereas all birds lay eggs.All mammals (including the monotremes) nurture their young on mothers' milk.All modern birds, even the flightless ones, have wings, whereas the only truly flighted mammal is the bat."