Animal Primates Rodents Whaling 
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2014
Whales are cows. It is technically correct, and recently fashionable, to insist that any living animal is a member of the larger group that contains it phylogenetically, i.e., ancestrally, with that group often named after the known animal that roots the tree. The point is, of course, that whales are not cows.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 16, 2011
But that is because we often have the relationship between dinosaurs and birds reversed in our little primate minds; Much of what is bird-like is not exclusive to birds, but rather, to a larger group of dinosaurs. Bipedalism is somewhat rare these days in the animal world.
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