Flyers are stupid, their brains go all to feathers.
It is a quite wonderful sight, takeoff. Human beings aren't as awkward as I would have expected, having seen the graceless flapping of such masters of the air as pelicans and swans getting airborne. They fly with the legs close together, the body arched a little backward, the legfeathers fanning out into a hawklike tail as needed. Though the latter I only saw once, and it troubled me. I was floored.