Is butterfly considered a bird?

Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight.

Why is bat not a bird?

Answer: Bats are mammals and not birds because: They feed their young one’s milk from mammary glands. Bats do not flap their entire forelimbs, like birds, but instead flap their spread out digits which are very long.

Are bats and butterflies related?

Insect wings lack bones, but bird and bat wings have them. Butterfly wings are covered in scales, bird wings in feathers, and bat wings with bare skin. Since wings have evolved independently in each of these groups, and don’t indicate that they are closely related, the possession of wings is an analogous trait.

Are sharks and penguins closely related?

Sharks, dolphins, and penguins are not closely related, but all have converged on a streamlined body form because they swim through the water.

What do butterflies and birds have in common?

All of these organisms have wings. Insect wings lack bones, but bird and bat wings have them. Butterfly wings are covered in scales, bird wings in feathers, and bat wings with bare skin. All of these organisms have adapted to life in the air and in doing so have evolved wings.

Can you list the difference between wings of cockroach and birds?

The wings of a cockroach are external appendages attached to the prothorax and the mesothorax. The wings of the bird are actually modified forelimbs, attached to the pectoral girdle, to which feathers are attached.

Why do penguins and ostrich Cannot fly?

Ostriches, emus, cassowaries, rheas, and kiwis can’t fly. Unlike most birds, their flat breastbones lack the keel that anchors the strong pectoral muscles required for flight. Their puny wings can’t possibly lift their heavy bodies off the ground.