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This is a listofratites. Extinct (EX) – No known living individuals Extinct in the wild (EW) – Known only to survive in captivity, or as a naturalized...
Palaeognathae consists ofratites and the flighted Neotropic tinamous (compare to Neognathae). Unlike other flightless birds, the ratites have no keel on their...
Moreover, tinamou nesting within flightless ratites indicates ancestral ratites were volant and multiple losses of flight occurred independently throughout...
sister group to ratites. The nine species of moa were the only wingless birds, lacking even the vestigial wings that all other ratites have. They were...
representatives are often known as ratites), and their closest living relatives are kiwi (found only in New Zealand), suggesting that ratites did not diversify by vicariance...
longer than previously thought. Today, ratites such as the ostrich are farmed and sometimes even kept as pets. Ratites play a large role in human culture;...
"old jaws" is one of the two superorders recognized within the taxonomic class Aves and consist of the ratites and tinamous. The ratites are mostly large...
Southern American tinamous clearly into the middle of the ratites; so now there are mid-weight ratites which can fly, even though even the tinamous prefer...
order Struthioniformes, part of the infra-class Palaeognathae, a diverse group of flightless birds also known as ratites that includes the emus, rheas...
Indonesian: kasuari) are flightless birds of the genus Casuarius in the order Casuariiformes. They are classified as ratites: flightless birds without a keel on...
280 cm (9.2 ft) in height. Davies, S.J.J.F. (2003). "Birds I Tinamous and Ratites to Hoatzins". In Hutchins, Michael. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia...
(2013-06-07). "The evolution of sexual dimorphism in New Zealand giant moa ( Dinornis ) and other ratites". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological...
the only species to occur north of the Equator is the Galapagos penguin. The only group of birds other than the ratites to be entirely flightless, penguins...
Tinamous and Ratites to Hoatzins (2nd ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. pp. 75–79. ISBN 0-7876-5784-0. Peron, Richard. "Taxonomy of the Genus Casuarius"...
vehicles and predation of the eggs and young. Birds of Australia Emu War Fauna of Australia Rhea (bird), South American ratites Patterson, C.; Rich, Patricia...
such as a "pod" of whales or "gaggle" of geese. Animal epithet Lists of animals Listof animal sounds wikt:Appendix:Animals, a similar list on English Wiktionary...
of the order, though the IUCN uses a broader classification and includes all "ratites" and tinamous in Struthioniformes. Struthionidae is a member of...
distinctive subspecies of ostrich. The common ostrich belongs to the order Struthioniformes. Struthioniformes previously contained all the ratites, such as the...
Cape Petrel" (PDF). Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds. Volume 1: Ratites to ducks; Part A, Ratites to petrels. Melbourne, Victoria:...
(eds.). Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Vol. 8 Birds I Tinamous and Ratites to Hoatzins. Joseph E. Trumpey, Chief Scientific Illustrator (2nd ed.)...
well within the ratite radiation as most closely related to the extinct moa of New Zealand, implying flightlessness emerged among ratites multiple times...
(Megalapteryx didinus) is an extinct species of moa that was endemic to New Zealand. It is a ratite, a grouping of flightless birds with no keel on the sternum...
This is a listof Sphenisciformes species by global population. While numbers are estimates, they have been made by the experts in their fields. Sphenisciformes...
other ratites. Examination of brain endocasts has shown that both A. maximus and A. hildebrandti had greatly reduced optic lobes, similar to those of their...
Davies, Stephen, Ratites and Tinamous. Oxford University Press (2002), ISBN 978-0-19-854996-3 del Hoyo, et al.,Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume...
the Antarctic peninsula, Ratites may have similarly traveled overland from South America to colonise Australia; a fossil ratite is known from Antarctica...
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