Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
In the book "The road" authored by McCarthy Cormac we see how that in section 6 the answer was referenced.
"[H]e had a tattoo of a bird on his neck done by someone with an illformed
notion of their appearance"– this linked to the the imprint left in his mind because all animals were long gone (dead) but the picture of a bird was still in his imagination.
Here is how the text began on page 63.
" He wore a beard that had been cut square across the bottom with shears and he had a tattoo of a bird on his neck ..."