Re: storing a food source

[Augusto Haro <augustoharo@gmail.com>]

True that flying birds store fat. Now that I remind, I heard on
Discovery that small hummingbirds also travel through the Gulf of
Mexico losing half their weight... I suppose that things may be
different for birds in migration, which spend most of their time
flying in the same direction, when a relatively heavy body may help
inertial advance, and non-migrating birds, which land more, have to
start flying again, and turn more frequently... Truly do not know.

2009/9/16 jrc <jrccea@bellsouth.net>:
> On a long non-stop flight, some birds will burn off up to 50% of their body
> weight.  Most of that burn off is fat, followed by muscle mass; in the end
> limited by water required for continuing breakdown of the muscle mass.
> JimC
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@umd.edu>
> To: <augustoharo@gmail.com>; <dannj@alphalink.com.au>
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>>> Subject: Re: storing a food source
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>>>  unlikely to store fat? .....
>>> . Perhaps also in flying birds.
>>>
>> Flying birds store fat, too. Just not too much...
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