Why /shouldn't/ we genetically engineer ridable birds?
>>5084457They would kids The compies in Jurassic park did it, and they are like 1/10th the sizeThe movies are good source of info btw
>>5084458>The movies are good source of info btwHollywood movies whose primary motive is to entertain should not be used as a gauge on the current state of scientific field of research
>>5084460You’re wrong, Hollywood would never lie to me
>>5084457I thought emus were rideable?
>>5084457Is that a chocobo?
>>5084457Horses and similar ungulates will always be superior. See ostriches for what your idea looks like in practice.
>>5084582Ostriches are too small to be decent mounts, if you had a bigger flightless or at least gliding bird with more robust legs and a better posture it could be a very good mount
Even the likes of Gastornis, although having a fairly sturdy built, were still too light for an adult rider. Also not sure how their back would hold up in anatomical terms.
>>5084636Here's the weird thing about birds unlike humans they grow additional muscle tissue through just sustained tension. Absurd amounts of it's in relatively short times but it also atrophies quickly. We could make a lot of birds with thick leg bones strong enough by just keeping a weighted vest on them and increasing it overtime to approximate a rider.
The nice thing about horses and horse-adjacent animals is that once you actually get on them there isn't all that much they can easily to do you to get you off. What stops the chocobo from just turning its neck and biting you in the face?
>>5084636What about the Giant Moa?
>>5084764>What stops the chocobo from just turning its neck and biting you in the face?Friendship.
I'm sad they went extinct before we could paint them on walls and shit
>>5084457
>>5084778Have you ever met a bird? They tend to be monsters
>>5084458>>5084482based retard
>>5084878Need to be larger, shorter, cuter, and more docile.
>>5084764>What stops the chocobo from just turning its neck and biting you in the face?Birds don't have teeth, retard
Wouldn't make sense to. Birds aren't built with strong spines. Would make more sense to pigion man a flock of them
>>5085033Yeah but with genetic engineering we could give them stronger bones
>>5084457humans aren't smart enough to genetically engineer things on that level.>"durr, they made a piglet fluoresce under UV light tho?"not nearly on the same level. you would basically have to build a new organism from the ground up.
