Talk:Bird

[[File:Sciurus blandfordi Keulemans.jpg|thumb|120px|Only extant mammal]]

[[File:Sciurus blandfordi Keulemans.jpg|thumb|120px|Only extant mammal]]

::To equate the situation within a thought experiment {{u|Sabine's Sunbird}}, no, squirrels were thought to be their own type of animal until it was proven a few decades ago that they were, to the surprise of the scientific community, mammals! The only mammals left on Earth. All mammals were thought extinct, but now squirrels are recognized as successful mammals who populate the planet with over 11,000 species. Many other vertebrates exist, although still worthy of mention, and there are other animals etc., but the only living mammals are recognizd as having always been a fixture within society who have adapted to living among whatever animal it is that has evolved enough to write encyclopedias. The descriptor "only living mammals" thus becomes defining for the first paragraph of the squirrel article. [[User:Randy Kryn|Randy Kryn]] ([[User talk:Randy Kryn|talk]]) 13:13, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

::To equate the situation within a thought experiment {{u|Sabine's Sunbird}}, no, squirrels were thought to be their own type of animal until it was proven a few decades ago that they were, to the surprise of the scientific community, mammals! The only mammals left on Earth. All mammals were thought extinct, but now squirrels are recognized as successful mammals who populate the planet with over 11,000 species. Many other vertebrates exist, although still worthy of mention, and there are other animals etc., but the only living mammals are recognizd as having always been a fixture within society who have adapted to living among whatever animal it is that has evolved enough to write encyclopedias. The descriptor "only living mammals" thus becomes defining for the first paragraph of the squirrel article. [[User:Randy Kryn|Randy Kryn]] ([[User talk:Randy Kryn|talk]]) 13:13, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

:::Oddly enough, I would have no problem at all with using "only living mammals" in the first sentence in this idea crunch. However, mammal denotes a "class" of animals just like aves is a class. Dinos are a mere "clade", and should not be equated with a class, not in thought, and not in reality. Birds are far from obsolete (dinosaurs), about as far as humans are from those little mammals that skittered around the toes of those terrible lizards''!'' '''''[[User:Paine Ellsworth|P.I. Ellsworth]]''''' , [[Editor|ed.]] – [[User talk:Paine Ellsworth|''welcome!'']] – 13:39, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

== Chickens ==

== Chickens ==