"This is a very interesting question. First, I would like to ask a few clarifying questions about the premise, as I am not a bird expert! (pause for polite chuckle.)
For the purposes of this question, I am going to assume some priors about you mean when you say "survival" and "adaptation". If we are discussing these in the evolutionary sense, it's very difficult to understand the time scale and actual causality that would be needed to bring about any sort of assessment of how this one aspect of"
Tyler V. - "This is a very interesting question. First, I would like to ask a few clarifying questions about the premise, as I am not a bird expert! (pause for polite chuckle.)
For the purposes of this question, I am going to assume some priors about you mean when you say "survival" and "adaptation". If we are discussing these in the evolutionary sense, it's very difficult to understand the time scale and actual causality that would be needed to bring about any sort of assessment of how this one aspect of"See full answer