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Amazing Creations 11
Richard Gunther
Oilbirds live in cold, dark caves.
When they hatch, the parents leave the chicks and go searching
for food to feed it.
The chick is fed a diet of fruits, and the berries from palms, laurels
and camphor trees.
This diet is very rich, so the chick grows rather fat.
By the time the chick is three months old, it weighs twice as much
as its parent.
But this is precisely the best way to be, because the caves are cold,
and the extra layer of fat keeps the chick warm.
How do the parents know what food to feed their chicks?
Almost no other bird is so grossly fat for up to 4 months before it
leaves its nest, yet this is exactly right for this bird - how did this
come about? Was it just an accident?
No, the way the chicks grow, and the special diet, are all part of
God's great design - for this creature, in this habitat.
