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gus_massa on Dec 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Did learning to fly give bats super-immunity?

Very strange, I'd like to see more evidence.

Is there some analogous adaptation for birds? Flying / non-flying birds?

abecedarius on Dec 25, 2012 [–]

Birds are also long-lived, compared to mammals of similar size. One of Nick Lane's books discussed this and something about their adaptations against damage from respiration -- either Oxygen or Power, Sex, Suicide, I forget which.

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