complicates this,
to grips with now involve the--AYRES:
Did you see
wi
May I interrupt for a second,
any signs of birds whose tail feathers or wing feathers were
vn
fF
YW
NW
of course, the real differences that we have to core
lost later on because of beta burns?
CONARD:
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I'm trying to
The feathers would protect the skin from
peta burns,
AYRES:
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I don't think we have,
recall.
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DONALDSON:
i'm just wondering whether the feathers
themselves might have been burnt?
DONALDSON: ‘The birds that survivea two or three
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days almost invariably were in good shape.
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housekeeping somewhere else, except for those-that can't fly,
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the young birds,
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TAYLOR:
They set up
Didn't some of the birds, because of ex-
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posure to the thermal radiation, lose their ability to shed
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water so that they couldn't swim?
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DONALDSON:
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TAYLOR:
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Are these birds that normall;; would fish
by landing in the water and then diving?
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Yes,
DONALDSON:
They simply pick them off, they don't
dive,
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TAYLOR:
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DONALDSON:
I see,
The major other problem I guess one
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might call attention to at this point is that we are dealing
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in really two environments:
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the other animils essentially living either terrestrially or
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in the aquatic environment,
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that existed immediately is that there is the stratification
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of the fallout into a finite layer essentially on the terres-
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trial area where there is a three-~dirensional distribution
The birds living in both, but
And the quite obvious situation
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