Planet of the Aves: Knowledge of Aerodynamics and Weather Phenomena

So, on the Planet of the Aves, Tres' sapient crows are the dominant sapient species. Given that your average bird spends plenty of time on the wing, how intuitive would they find subsonic aerodynamics, compared to us ground-bound humans, who have to crunch all sorts of numbers just to figure out how well a wing design will work? (Nowadays, we let a PC do that for us, but the idea doesn't change.)

Furthermore, assuming they can fly high enough and long enough for weather to be a factor, would they have an easier time understanding weather phenomena than we do? Could they simply glance at a storm and tell if it's a minor rainshower or a baby microburst being born? Would they be able to tell us things about icing layers that we haven't figured out yet?

A list of all Planet of the Aves questions can be found here.

posted about 8 years ago

Shalvenay‭

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