With all do respect to you land lovers i like my wings. But i’m worried do i count within the furry community. On the one hand my persona is an anthropomorphic bird, on the other i have feathers not fur

  • Plumbo the Sleep GoblinEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    Since feathers are just modified scales, anthro birds are by definition scalies

    • @HundaRaketistoEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      In that case, early mammals evolved fur from their scales, so then all furries are scalies.

      • Plumbo the Sleep GoblinEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Good point, but birds only have one mass extinction separating them from lizards, whereas mammals have two.

        Also, cursory Google search suggests that the consensus opinion is that hair and feathers are an example of convergent evolution, although the timeline is so tight that they could have split off from each other when mammals and dinosaurs split off from the therapsids.