Inner Bird : Anatomy and Evolution.

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Main Author: Kaiser, Gary W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2014.
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505 0 |a ""Contents""; ""Figures and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1: What Is a Bird?""; ""1 The Bird beneath the Feathers: How adaptations for flight allow a bird to earn a living on the ground""; ""2 A Bird Is an Animal with Hollow Bones: Special features of avian bones and their assembly as a skeleton""; ""3 A Bird Is Like a Dinosaur: Features shared by birds and their reptilian ancestors""; ""4 A Bird Is Not So Like a Dinosaur: Features that distinguish birds from their reptilian ancestors""; ""Part 2: What Kind of Bird Is It?"" 
505 8 |a ""5 The Kinds of Birds: Classification and taxonomy""""6 That Bird Is Different from the Other One: Evolutionary relationships among families of birds""; ""Part 3: How Does a Bird Fly?""; ""7 Feathers and Feathered Dinosaurs: Flight in early birds and birdlike animals""; ""8 Birds with a Modern Shape: Birds cease to look like feathered dinosaurs and become skilled fliers""; ""9 Birds on Land: A robust design helps birds compete with mammals""; ""10 Birds at Sea: Sophisticated aerodynamics take birds onto oceans""; ""Conclusion""; ""Appendices"" 
505 8 |a ""1 Birds in Relation to Other Vertebrate Animals""""2 Geological Time Scale""; ""Glossary of Ornithological Terms""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Literature Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z"" 
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