Question

Birds are very well adapted for aerial mode of life justify the statement with any five adaptive characters

Answer 1

Answer:

Aerial mode is a mode which can fly

Explanation:

Five adaptive features of bird

1. Rigid and fused bones: to help with flight (e.g., synsacrum, ischium, ilium, pubis, also wrist and hand bones)

2. Reduction of mass: no teeth, hollow bones (pneumatic bones)

3. Huge blade of sternum

4. Large pair of fused clavicles that form the furcula (wish bone)

5. Reduced appendages, particularly the tail of other vertebrates: short stub of tail (pygostile)