>>213408634
They are so cool

>>5023061
real answer. creationism is true, but not the way you're taught or how religious nuts try to push it. it's not just "one single entity created everything as it is last tuesday". there's dozens of creator beings up there, and there's tons of archetypes and shit being recycled. to cut it short, mankind is itself an archetype, and dozens of creator Gods above our reality can deploy mankinds, bears, big cats, big birds, anything. these animals aren't always updated after each cycle starts over.
mammoth > elephant
bear > badger > weasel
triceratops > chameleon
pelican > seagull > tern
eagle > hawk
capybara > porcupine, beaver > squirrel
there's too many examples to list. these "great apes" are of human origin. they're wrinkly and born looking old because their genome is worn out.
yes this is /x/ tier stuff, but it checks out. see for yourself.
human > poo in loo > gorilla > chimp > macaque > rat
but there's more. spider monkeys sure are different from macaques. how about those gorillas with kinky curly hair and empty, vacant eyes? they sure don't look like donkey kong.
but there's your answer. but there's more questions, like "then what's up with baboons" which points to some genomes being sampled and recreated as new animals, who then start degrading the moment they're deployed on earth.
earth has cycles of destruction, but it doesn't create. it only consumes.

Lets just all take a moment to thank them for all of the help they provided to us along the many long, painfully slow, almost comically goofy banana peel slides we monkeys have danced through.

Flight is massively powerful evolutionary adaptation that provides such an amazing mobility
That it seems difficult to imagine any world where the creatures with flight would not dominate the evolutionary ladder

Predator comes, fly away, no more predator problems
You are a predator, drop down on the shitters and feast, fly away, shit down on them while flying away, its based.

But it is a genetic evolution that directs and requires a massive amount of energy to evolve, and then maintain. As we know birds can and do lose flight and get stuck back on the ground to become dinner for kot. Eye tracking movement has to be super fast for flight as you are moving towards and around obstacles faster than even sprinting, or shifting as bats do to even out maneuver insects in mid air

My question then is, how does the Home World determine flight becoming the dominant trait to evolve?

You would desire less of a quantity of ground animals to compete with and evolve against in the chase for resources
More of an Island world?
Where flight could island hop, but ground is going to have a more difficult time and cant get the genetic variety required in the mutation race to dominate because it is far too spread out?
More of a mountainous world? Where life lives at the top, but the valleys are too narrow?

But then you are competing with more flight animals...
And as we know, tropical parrots are believed to develop the vibrancy of color plumage, parrots for example, because the jungle is so packed tightly together, there is a huge variety of flying animals in there, And the ability to tell one another apart rapidly is easy with color that only your in group can even see, otherwise it behaves as camouflage to other predators