How To Use Ratite In A Sentence
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Birds affected by this disease are fowls, bantams, turkeys, geese, ducks, pheasants, guinea fowl and other wild and captive birds, including ratites such as ostriches, emus and rhea.
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Palaeotis, a small ratite argued by some to be a stem rhea, has more recently been found to be outside of the clade that includes rheas, ostriches, cassowaries and emus.
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They are found in mammals, turtles, squamates, and crocodilians, as well as a few bird taxa, particularly ratites and ducks.
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What aspect of the ratite genome accounts for the larger size relative to volant birds?
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Moas were ratites, flightless birds considered the sister group of all other birds.
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Given that a few other Eocene European tetrapods have been suggested to be particularly closely related to South American taxa (namely the ratite Palaeotis, the peradectine opossums and the supposed anteater Eurotamandua), Ameghinornis and Aenigmavis were thought to perhaps indicate that phorusrhacids had originated in Europe and later spread (via Africa) to South America (Peters & Storch 1993).
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Only a few naturalists of the last century came to grips with any of the ratite questions.
The Song of The Dodo
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However chickens are closely related to tinamous and the ratites by post-cranial anatomy, particularly the structure of the clavicle.
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The ostrich is an exception, a ratite that inhabits the African mainland.
The Song of The Dodo
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The living ratites (ostriches, emus, kiwis, and the extinct moa) are an ancient lineage of flightless birds.
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Living relatives of moa include the emus, ostrich, and kiwi, which are members of a bird group called ratites.
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But the ratite lineage in general, with its heritage of gigantism and flightlessness, is relictual on Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand and was until recently on Madagascar, having held out in those places while long ago disappearing from the mainlands.
The Song of The Dodo
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Living relatives of moa include the emus, ostrich, and kiwi, which are members of a bird group called ratites.
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Other ratites, the elephant bird of Madagascar and the moas of New Zealand, have been extinct for several centuries, probably as a result of human hunting.
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The big birds of the title are the ratites, or members of the ostrich family.
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To date, mitochondrial rate calibrations have been generated (in chronological order) for geese, Hawaiian honeycreepers, cranes, partridges, procellariiform seabirds, and ratites.
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They belonged to a primitive group of birds known as ratites.
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In summary, in rheas as well and in other ratites, the high energetic costs associated with incubation and post-hatching parental care would favor paternal care and a mating system that combines polyandry and polygyny.
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Restrictions and slaughter provisions apply to domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, quail, ratites, pigeons, pheasants and partridges reared or kept in captivity.
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Both of these bird families had reduced wings and could not fly, and looked something like living ratite birds - ostriches, emus, rheas, and so on.
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Birds affected by this disease are fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, pheasants, guinea fowl and other wild and captive birds, including ratites such as ostriches, emus and rhea.
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About 30 years ago, Joel Cracraft sketched out the central melodies of ratite evolution.
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Other ratites, the elephant bird of Madagascar and the moas of New Zealand, have been extinct for several centuries, probably as a result of human hunting.
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Living relatives of moa include the emus, ostrich, and kiwi, which are members of a bird group called ratites.
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So the ratite lineage combines aspects of both endemism and relictualism—endemism at the level of species, relictualism at the level of the group.
The Song of The Dodo
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When the ratite birds first roamed Gondwana, they could walk from any of the places where they later dwelt, to any other.
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Less than 200 years ago, the ratites (named after the Latin for having a flattened sternum, a result of not needing powerful flying muscles) were still thriving.
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They are found in mammals, turtles, squamates, and crocodilians, as well as a few bird taxa, particularly ratites and ducks.
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Further data of the energetic cost of breeding for males and females of other ratite species would be valuable for testing that hypothesis.
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Cassowaries are large ratites, and are among the largest birds in the world.
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They're actually related to geese and ducks, the group anseriformes, whereas the moas, emus, cassowaries, ostriches and so on belong to a group called the ratites and they actually have small heads compared to their bodies.
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Ornithomimids were a distinctive group of theropod dinosaurs who show a good example of convergent evolution with the ratite birds, such as ostriches.
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All Encratites lived as groups of celibate male and female Christians, not as individual recluses, and they survived and grew by attracting converts.
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Restrictions and slaughter provisions apply to domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, quail, ratites, pigeons, pheasants and partridges reared or kept in captivity.
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Botswana, using isoleucine epimerization in ratite Larsson, L. (1996).
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Characteristically mixing scholarly inquiries with fun, he considers the great ratite enigmas: why don't they fly or sing, or have proper feathers?
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For example, ratites and tinamous have sole male incubation, but communal laying apparently occurs in only a few of these species.
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Birds affected by this disease are fowls, bantams, turkeys, geese, ducks, pheasants, guinea fowl and other wild and captive birds, including ratites such as ostriches, emus and rhea.
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They have three toes like most ratites, and short middle phalanges.
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They may well have been native to Africa - just one link in a continuous chain of ratite species that circled Gondwana until it broke up.
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Restrictions and slaughter provisions apply to domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, quail, ratites, pigeons, pheasants and partridges reared or kept in captivity.
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Their wings are stunted, with a smaller body-to-wing proportion than in some other ratites, and, like most other ratites, cassowaries have no tail feathers.
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Moas were ratites, flightless birds considered the sister group of all other birds.
