Flightless Birds – Greenwood Guides to the Animal World (repost)
Clive Roots "Flightless Birds – Greenwood Guides to the Animal World"
Published by Greenwood Press | Publication date : September 2006 | ISBN : 0313335451 | PDF | 236 pages | English | 8.2 MB
Published by Greenwood Press | Publication date : September 2006 | ISBN : 0313335451 | PDF | 236 pages | English | 8.2 MB
Beautifully illustrated, with numerous color photos, Flightless Birds provides copious material for understanding these unusual animals. The book provides a thorough guide, perfect for research papers in biology classes, for understanding the behavior and biodiversity of a fascinating and unusual group of animals.
We share the earth with a wide variety of animal species, each of which brings something special to the diversity of the planet. By knowing more about how animals behave and live, we gain a greater understanding of how life evolved and the importance of biodiversity. This volume provides a complete guide to those birds that have evolved a trait that would seem to harm their ability to survive - flightlessness. Flight has its advantages - why would some birds be flightless? Flightless Birds covers the loss of flight in birds, both permanently after years of evolution, and temporarily as a result of unusual molting behavior, and those species that are in various stages of losing their flight.