Similarly, if you don t have wings and can t fly, ducks can swim, so why can t chickens swim?

Ducks and chickens are through the process of evolution of animal species, the ancestors of ducks themselves have a relationship with water, ducks belong to the order Bird's Gooseformes, ducks belong to the duck family, ducks are domesticated from wild ducks, ducks are born to swim, ducklings can swim when they break out of their shells, and this is true by nature. Chickens belong to the pheasant family, which is also trained, and if you distinguish the ancestors of chickens and ducks, ducks belong to waterfowl and chickens belong to terrestrial birds. This nature determines that ducks are good at swimming, and chickens are not good at swimming.

But nothing is absolute, just relative.

You've probably seen ducks and geese swimming in the water, but have you ever wondered? Ducks, geese, and chickens are all poultry, so why have you never seen chickens swimming in water? Can chickens swim?

We rarely see chickens swimming, but chickens still swim by nature. Short distances are no problem for most chickens. If an adult chicken falls into the water, it can float on the surface of the water with buoyancy and swim to the shore with its feet without stopping.

There are also some sturdy chickens that can swim dozens of meters. However, chickens are not as good at swimming as ducks and geese. Why?

This is mainly due to the fact that chickens have less feather fat than ducks and geese. Therefore, if the chicken stays in the water, after a long time, the feathers will be soaked, lose buoyancy, and can only sink. Chickens also know how dangerous this can be, so they generally don't go into the water.

However, there is a gain in the loss, and although the chickens are not very good swimmers, they are very strong on their legs and feet, and they are good at running, and sometimes they can even fly a short distance. When frightened, chickens are especially explosive. Sometimes they run and fly, and it's hard for ordinary people to catch them.

Therefore, ducks are good at swimming because of their natural evolution, with a flat body, waterproof feathers, and finned claws, and the whole body characteristics are born for swimming. Chicken body characteristics, feathers, paws are not suitable for swimming, in fact, chickens also have swimming, but the swimming style and duck ratio is too much worse, and the chicken that can swim belongs to the alternative among the chickens, most chickens do not have this ability, unless there is an accident, otherwise they would rather go up the tree than into the water. Take a look below, who said chickens can't swim, it's just not the time to swim.

Studies have found that geese and ducks are able to float in the water because they have well-developed tail fat glands. The tail fat glands of geese and ducks can secrete a large amount of fat, lecithin, and oil, and we can often see geese and ducks pecking their feathers, but otherwise they are squeezing the tail fat glands, and then smearing the squeezed oil on the feathers of the whole body. The fat glands of chicken tail are underdeveloped, and they cannot secrete enough oil, and they will not have the habit of squeezing the tail fat glands and applying oil.

If we live in the countryside, we will often see chickens hiding from the rain on rainy days, soaked with feathers, which is also known as "soup chicken". Because the chicken lacks this magic weapon, it also determines that it will be permanently unable to swim.

We have not seen chickens swim, in fact chickens can swim at short distances, and when they encounter water, their feathers will get soaked and lose their buoyancy.

Because chickens do not have the same paws as ducks, their claws can move alone, their feathers are very heavy, and chickens do not have very well-developed fat glands.

Because their living habits are very different, chickens are terrestrial birds and belong to the pheasant family.

In terms of disciplines, chickens belong to the category of moa.

Section. It stands to reason that all birds should be able to fly, but the chickens and ducks we usually see are exceptions. Chickens and ducks are not considered, and we know that the largest bird in the world is the ostrich.

An ostrich can run fast, but it can't fly. Why? Because the ostrich is too big and heavy, its wings can't support it to fly.

Some people say that the ostrich wings are too small, so it can't fly. Not really. The ostrich wing is also large, but the burden on the wing is too heavy, so it can't fly.

That's why ducks can't fly.

Their wings can't support their body weight, so they can't fly. Chickens, ducks and geese cover almost all of our most common poultry. They can provide me with eggs, the first of the proteins, which is precisely one of the reasons why primitive humans chose to domesticate them.

Chickens and geese were domesticated by wild birds, and both of their ancestors had some ability to fly. But under artificial breeding, the most important ability to fly for the species itself, but the most useful ability that can cause loss to man, has become a bird that flapps its wings at most a few times and flies to the wall.

Poultry such as ducks and geese are domestic. They eat food fed by humans, so they are much fatter than wild birds. And their feathers are not as well developed as birds, and their wings are not enough to support them in high flight.

They can only try their best to fly a dozen meters at low altitude. Some very powerful chickens can fly into trees and houses, but they can't fly freely like birds.

Before humans raised chickens and ducks as poultry, wild chickens and ducks could fly. They flew around the forest, looking for food. Later, when humans raised them as poultry, they locked them up.

They don't have to fly around on their own in search of food, and they don't have to quickly flee from the enemy. Gradually, pheasants and mallards turned into obese domestic chickens and ducks, flying technology.

Gradually, the wings gradually lost the ability to fly. They don't exist to fly. Chickens and ducks lay eggs and crow.

This is their task. Flying is not their task. They are also not equipped to fly.

Poultry are usually kept in cages, and space also restricts their flight.

Of course, ducks and chickens have wings and can't fly, because after a long time, their bodies will become hungry. Because of the plan, they are more suitable for being on land. It turns out that before humans raised chickens and ducks as poultry, wild chickens and ducks could fly.

They flew around the forest, looking for food. Later, when humans raised them as poultry, they locked them up. They don't have to fly around on their own in search of food, and they don't have to quickly flee from the enemy.

Gradually, pheasants and mallards became obese domestic chickens and ducks, their flying skills gradually deteriorated, and their wings gradually declined. Birds have large bodies and few meats, well-developed flight feathers, and good flight ability. So chickens, ducks and geese have wings, but they can't fly freely like birds.

Ducks and geese can fly, especially in the wild, where they migrate long distances. Domestic chickens, ducks and geese have weakened their ability to fly because they usually fly less and are heavy.

Domestic chickens and ducks can actually fly, but in the same environment, domestic ducks are far less capable of flying than domestic chickens, and even domestic chickens have their own flight ability. Some chickens can only fly from the ground to cages tens of centimeters high, some can fly to walls, and some domestic chickens can even fly to trees. Chickens and ducks are all domesticated by wild birds, of which the ancestor of the chicken is the original chicken, and the ancestor of the duck is the mallard.

Mallards are experts in flying, and according to current research, wild mallards can fly up to 6,400 meters in the air and fly thousands of miles for migration. The ancestor of the domestic chicken is the raw chicken. Although the original chicken can fly, its flight ability is much weaker than that of wild ducks, because the original chicken likes to live in bamboo forests, and they do not have the habit of migrating.

It's fine to fly up to a tree or a hundred meters or so, but it's not okay if it's a long-distance migration or a flight into the sky.

The domestication time of the original chicken has been changed once. Back in 2014, about 8,000 years ago in India, the first domestic chicken bones were discovered. However, in 2014, Chinese ornithologists measured some chicken bones unearthed in China and found that there were domestic chickens in China as early as 10,000 years ago.

So China was the first country to domesticate the original chicken.

Although these two animals have large wings, they have degenerated during the evolutionary process, so they cannot fly.

Because the ancestors of ducks and chickens had degraded their wings during their growth, and because of their long-term captivity, their body fat and weight exceeded the limits of what their wings could carry, so they could not fly.

Because they were domesticated by humans and never had the opportunity to fly, their wings have degenerated.