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

10,000 Birds

For example, you could say, “among mammals, only three families include species with a meaningful degree of root eating” or “within the family that includes lemmings and voles, there is a mixture of monogamous and polygynous species” and so on. Monkey is a common, not scientific, term. Sometimes the exceptions are spectacular.

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How much bird is there, anyway?

10,000 Birds

A single large spider monkey, which might be out of view, equals a large number of lightly built and small birds which may be scattered across the landscape. There are probably other major trends that depend, for example, on latitude and timing. This is also because mammals are large. A little bit of bird biomass goes a long way.

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