Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27966940-20180117043937/@comment-4136655-20180303013413

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: Which is fine, with birds, whose bodies are generally not long, both in a wide and a tall sense (yes, some birds have sizes as big as 2.7m....ostriches, which can't fly). They also have very light skeletons, which helps prevent them from slamming against the ground cause Gravity.

Very different from humans, who on average go from between "meter-and-half" to "2 meters" in size, whose skeletons are not really light, and who on average weight more than 50Kg.

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My point: Birds might (usually) have wings 3x or 4x bigger than their bodies. But that "rule of thumb" should not be applied to winged Faunus, who, animal trait aside, are exactly like humans. This is why I brought up Argentavis. While extinct, Argentavis is quite the big bird, estimates put it at a height of 1.5-2m (4.9-6.6ft), a mass of 70-72kg (154-159lbs), and a wingspan of 5.09-6.07m (16.6-19.ft). Quite human sized I would say, and was still capable of flight.