A flamingo that never learned to stand on one leg, that spent most of its time in the water with both legs immersed, would lose somewhere around 40-70% more body heat than a flamingo that did learn this behavior.
The ideas of the Enlightenment played a major role in inspiring the French Revolution, which began in 1789. After the Revolution, the Enlightenment was followed by an opposing intellectual movement known as Romanticism.
Age of Reason redirects here. For other uses, see Age of Reason (disambiguation) . The Enlightenment, known in French as the ââSiecle siÃ¨cle Desââ (Lumieres lumiÃ¨res Century), of enlightenment And in german ââAsââ, the aufklaerung aufklÃ¤rung was a philosophical movement which dominated the world Of ideas in europe in. the 18th century