Remove Hunting Remove Primates Remove Research Remove Strategy
article thumbnail

On the threshold of flight

10,000 Birds

Flight has evolved multiple times; it has emerged in lizards, snakes, fish, bats, maybe bats again, distant relatives of primates, regular primates, rodents, and a few other unlikely taxa, in a rather half baked fashion, not “true” flight. It has evolved in non-vertebrate animals like insects more than once.

Rodents 183
article thumbnail

Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

They are large passerines and research has shown them to be an ancient basal offshoot from the passerine tree (at approximately the same time as rockjumpers, were even placed in the same family until quite recently). Then a few years ago the news broke that picathartes had been rediscovered at a community forest reserve in Ghana.

Ghana 188