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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

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The active colonies of wasps are efficient protection against primates and large avian predators. Each fresh egg weighs 4 pounds and is the equivalent of 24 chicken eggs. . The benefit for the wasps is that they get to keep a beautiful pet. Scientists use ostrich cells to create masks that glow when they detect COVID-19.

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Come@Me: If Birds are Dinosaurs I’m a Monkey’s Uncle

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Wisdom is not charging people extra to see your reconstituted Jurassic Park style dinosaur zoo when all you’ve got is a barn full of chickens. People use the terms “primate” and “monkey” interchangeably, and refer to such things as lemurs as monkeys. Knowledge is knowing that a bird is a dinosaur.

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What happened with Archaeopteryx?

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For instance, in primate phylogeny, postcranial traits (bony traits of the body, not the head) are usually useless because we can’t link teeth to bodies in most cases, and the teeth drive the taxonomy (though there are some recent exceptions ). .&# The trait must then be identifiable as to whether or not it exists in a certain species.

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