2007-08-28 13:20:07 · 9 answers · asked by surfcastjunkie 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
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Coconuts could have found their way to the British Isles if there is a possibility of swallows carrying them. I don't know how fast the swallow would be flying though until you tell me how big a coconut.
Sparrows are a total loss for carrying a coconut. Maybe a cashew or a hazelnut?
2007-08-28 13:51:30 · answer #1 · answered by kayakdudeus 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sparrows are too small to carry a coconut. Besides, the debate has always been over swallows.
Here is the data:
The coconut's tropical.
The swallow may fly south with the sun... or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter... yet these are not strangers to our land.
A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut, no matter where he grips it. But two swallows might carry it on a line between them, held under the dorsal guiding feathers.
Oh, and African swallows are non-migratory, so they couldn't bring a coconut back anyway.
2007-08-28 20:48:36 · answer #2 · answered by Now and Then Comes a Thought 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Some birdwatcher somewhere has clocked it, but you didn't specify European or African swallow (and of course the African swallows are non-migratory).
But according to one source, the air speed of a fairly typical unladen European swallow is estimated to be roughly 24 miles per hour.
And to kayakdudeus - they could grip its by the husk, or have it on a line under the dorsal guiding feathers.
2007-08-28 20:58:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Laden or unladen?
Edit: Now after all the fun we're having, let's hope he really doesn't need the air speed velocity of a SPARROW... really too close to swallow to not make such comments.
You can call me...... ...Tim.
2007-08-28 20:39:42 · answer #4 · answered by Smarty-Marti 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
U mean a European or an African sparrow?
2007-08-28 20:32:47 · answer #5 · answered by The Glorious S.O.B. 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Go and boil your bottom, you silly English K-***-ht! I wave my private parts in your general direction! Your father was a hamster and your mother smelled of elderberries!
2007-08-28 23:38:48 · answer #6 · answered by aviophage 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
African or European?
And is it unladen?
Does it grip it by the husk?
2007-08-31 12:22:07 · answer #7 · answered by Wayner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blue
No, yel...
Aaaagghhh!!!
2007-08-29 02:03:57 · answer #8 · answered by skeptik 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
go here: http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
2007-08-28 20:27:51 · answer #9 · answered by tech.freek 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋