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RE: storing a food source



On Thu, Sep 17th, 2009 at 4:13 AM, "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@umd.edu> 
wrote:

> > From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] 
> > On Behalf Of Augusto Haro
> >
> > Can it be that some reptiles are unlikely to store fat? It 
> > seems that storing fat in snakes may hinder locomotion more 
> > than in other reptiles. Perhaps also in flying birds.
> > 
> Flying birds store fat, too. Just not too much...

Young chicks can store prodigious amounts of fat. Juvenile (pre-volant) mutton 
birds often out-
weight their parents. Visually they can appear twice the size (although a lot 
of that might be fluff).

Caged birds can also become grossly over-weight if fed a poor diet and unable 
to exercise. I've 
seen budgies with over-hanging beer-guts (or would that be a 'seed-gut'?).

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Dann Pigdon
GIS / Archaeologist                Australian Dinosaurs
Melbourne, Australia               http://home.alphalink.com.au/~dannj
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