"A spearfowl, big as an Earthly condor, hovered out there. Its feathers were like shining steel."
-Poul Anderson, Orbit Unlimited, part four, 5, p.120.
Yet another passage that resonates with passages already read. If I remember correctly, a spearfowl will play a more active role as the narrative proceeds.
There are Terrestrial hawks, Merseian fangryfs and Rustumite spearfowl. The fictional fangryf obviously borrows part of its name from the mythological gryphon.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And I think it makes sense, and is very likely the actual case, for many planets with many different kinds of life, to include among them raptors, carnivorous flying hunters. So I would expect other worlds to have their equivalents of hawks and eagles.
Sean
Sean,
Apparently on this one planet, Earth, both sight and flight have evolved independently several times.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Because that is what the known evidence TELLS us.
Sean
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