The Statler Waldorf Balcony

[rjh4 is back]

Zen, you asked me to come up with a classification system such that what we call "birds" would be classified with "bats". I did that. What is the problem? How was my classification system "wrong"?

True, it is not technically wrong, it doesn't address the issue, but it is not wrong.

Thank you for such an admission. I still don't see how it fails to address the issue though. You asked me to come up with a classification system where birds and bats would be classified together. I did. I addressed the issue.

The word used is fowl, and since the passage then goes on to list a whole group of actual birds but leaves out insects(most of which have wings) various gliding mammals, pteranodons etc then the people who wrote it thought that bats were fowl.

The word can also mean "flying creature". Since it then lists a bunch of animals that fly, I don't see why you have such a hard time with this passage.

Feel free to quote an alternative classification system that can sensibly class bats as birds.

I already did that, Zen, and you didn't like my answer...and you failed to provide any reasons why my system is not "sensible".