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The quick answer is because that's where it has landed in their evolution.
It may be the case in other birds (I don't know), but I can grasp how a bulging crop does stand out to a world in which folks are accustomed to all of the alimentary organs (a cow has how may stomachs?) being contained within the rib cage.
The quick answer is because that's where it has landed in their evolution.
It may be the case in other birds (I don't know), but I can grasp how a bulging crop does stand out to a world in which folks are accustomed to all of the alimentary organs (a cow has how may stomachs?) being contained within the rib cage.
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