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

10,000 Birds

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. For example, “the Ungulata include hooved animals with multi-chambered stomachs, except the whales.”. . – Birds are indeed dinosaurs, yet, are indubitably not. So, here’s the thing.

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The Storks of Africa

10,000 Birds

Furthermore we have another very special stork-like bird, the regal Shoebill , previously known as the Whale-headed Stork but now placed in its own family. Previously known as the Whale-headed Stork, its scientific name of Balaeniceps rex translates as “King Whalehead”, in reference to its giant whale or shoe-shaped head and bill.

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