Can’t fly – won’t fly

ONE of the behaviours that we associate most closely with birds is the power of flight. When Archaeopteryx took to the skies during the Jurassic Era 153 million years ago, it paved the way for the evolution of one of the most successful groups of animals to evolve – the birds. It is a group of organisms which have made the skies their own ever since. Only one mammal from another successful order has the capability of true flight: the bat.

Despite the evolution of flight, there are