zygodactyl

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• Wood peckers and other birds that climb tree trunks often have these zygodactyl toes. CNN Transcript May 16, 2007
• Their talons are sharp and hooked and their feet are zygodactyl with a reversible fourth toe.
• The feet are zygodactylous, with two toes pointed forward and two toes pointed backward.
• He suggested that it evolved semi-zygodactyl feet from an anisodactyl ancestral roller because its large size and specialisation for arboreal life required improved perching abilities. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
• Their talons are sharp and hooked and their feet are zygodactyl with a reversible fourth toe.
• Owls are zygodactylous: two toes face anteriorly and two toes face posteriorly.
• It's superficially similar to true rollers (Coraciidae) and ground-rollers (Brachypteraciidae) but, unlike them, has semi-zygodactyl feet (though it has frequently very depicted inaccurately by artists who, in the absence of better information, have assumed that it's anisodactyl, like true rollers). ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
• The feet of most woodpeckers are large and zygodactylous, meaning two toes point forward and two backward on each foot.
• He suggested that it evolved semi-zygodactyl feet from an anisodactyl ancestral roller because its large size and specialisation for arboreal life required improved perching abilities. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
• Most Cuckoos have moderately sized, slightly down curved bills, medium to long wings and zygodactylous feet.