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It’s a chicken and the sky is the limit! Well, not really. Chickens don’t have any wings so they can’t fly which has baffled scientists for centuries. Why couldn’t chickens fly? In this blog post we will explore why chickens don’t have wings and what might be in store for them in the future.
– Chickens can’t fly because they have no wing bones. A chicken’s wings are made of skin, feathers, muscles and tendons which makes it impossible for them to support the weight of their entire body in flight.
– The scientific consensus is that chickens evolved from a group of wild jungle fowl living on the Indian subcontinent about eight million years ago. Over time these birds lost their ability to fly due to natural selection pressures (i.e., anything too big or heavy eventually gets weeded out). Since then there has been little evolution among modern day chickens enabling them all to remain grounded.
– In some cases humans did play a role in selecting chickens with features desirable enough not to be selected against by natural selection. For example, in ancient China and Han Dynasty chickens were bred to have short necks so that they would not peck grain off the ground but rather eat from people’s hands.
– In other cases humans may have selected against certain features without much thought for how it might affect natural selection. Chickens with white feathers on their plumage used to be prized as a sign of beauty because these birds did not often get covered in dirt or dust while at work collecting food scraps around town; however this trait also made them more vulnerable in an environment where predators lurked about looking for weak targets to prey upon—a tradeoff which eventually led to its abandonment among chicken breeders who preferred darker feather colors like black, brown, or gray. – The competitive market for chickens has also led to the development of breeds which are big enough to produce more eggs than other types, or small enough to fit in cramped living spaces without causing too much trouble amongst themselves; however these characteristics have come at a cost as they often lead to birds that do not grow into healthy adults and instead die prematurely because their bodies cannot support them. In this way it can be difficult for people who raise and sell chickens by breeding them efficiently and cheaply (in order to maximize profit) but harmfully for the animals involved with few considerations given for whether or not these creatures might actually survive long term on such an unnatural diet–which is largely what we see when most grocery stores stock chicken feed alongside live
