Would you utter the phrase “animal bodies are held together by flesh instead of skeletons?”
Seems like weird phrasing but ultimately true. Bones give structure but they’re not sticky—if you took away all the flesh (muscle, skin, ligaments etc.) the bones would just fall apart, but if you took away all the bones it would be very floppy but still would clump together. A boneless chicken thigh doesn’t fall apart, but a skeleton from hundreds of years ago, where only the bones remain, is not held together.
Seems like weird phrasing but ultimately true. Bones give structure but they’re not sticky—if you took away all the flesh (muscle, skin, ligaments etc.) the bones would just fall apart, but if you took away all the bones it would be very floppy but still would clump together. A boneless chicken thigh doesn’t fall apart, but a skeleton from hundreds of years ago, where only the bones remain, is not held together.