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waterspyder ([personal profile] waterspyder) wrote2006-02-22 09:26 pm

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This is for everyone who thinks I'm lying when I tell them birds can grow sharp, pointy teeth

My university education has not lied to me yet...

[identity profile] purplezart.livejournal.com 2006-02-23 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
don't chicks have a spur on their beak when they're born?

[identity profile] waterspyder.livejournal.com 2006-02-23 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
mm not sure... I was taught in my course that with the right stimulus birds would grow lizard teeth (and lab tests proved it). I think chicken farming would be a little different if they had rows of teeth...

[identity profile] torrain.livejournal.com 2006-02-24 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
You can't see me, but I'm grinning like a maniac.

Sharp pointy teeth. Birds. Sirens are birds (as are sprites). Ooooohhhh yes, so much can be made of this...

[identity profile] parisbaby-2003.livejournal.com 2006-02-23 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I believe that is correct re the beak spur - it's what is supposed to help hatching chicks peck their way out of the egg. Otherwise it would be like humans trying to break a window by using their tongues.

Then again, maybe I heard that in some crazy acid flashback dream and I have no idea what I am talking about.

Anything's possible.

[identity profile] purplezart.livejournal.com 2006-02-23 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
if by "some crazy acid flashback dream" you mean The Polka Dot Door...

[identity profile] parisbaby-2003.livejournal.com 2006-02-23 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Polka-ROOOOOOOO!!!!!

Yeah, I'm soooo CanayJin.

[identity profile] oni-neko.livejournal.com 2006-02-23 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
Well this gives new meaning to that old saying...the ones about hen's teeth. so what's next, pigs with the ability to stay up in the air just bit longer than other animals?

[identity profile] krueger.livejournal.com 2006-02-23 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
cwwwaaazzzyyy