How To Use Zygodactyl In A Sentence
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Wood peckers and other birds that climb tree trunks often have these zygodactyl toes.
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Their talons are sharp and hooked and their feet are zygodactyl with a reversible fourth toe.
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The feet are zygodactylous, with two toes pointed forward and two toes pointed backward.
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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.
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Their talons are sharp and hooked and their feet are zygodactyl with a reversible fourth toe.
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Owls are zygodactylous: two toes face anteriorly and two toes face posteriorly.
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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).
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The feet of most woodpeckers are large and zygodactylous, meaning two toes point forward and two backward on each foot.
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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.
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Most Cuckoos have moderately sized, slightly down curved bills, medium to long wings and zygodactylous feet.
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All the small zygodactyl or semizygodactyl forms, generally from Eocene deposits, are jumbled together in the family Zygodactylidae.
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According to Britannica.com this arrangement is called zygodactyl and is typical of parrots, woodpeckers, cuckoos and a few other kinds.
New Archaeopteryx fossil provides further insight into bird, dinosaur evolution - The Panda's Thumb
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Like all parrots, they are zygodactyl, having 4 toes on each foot - two front and two back.
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Their legs are strong, and feathered in many species; they have zygodactyl raptorial feet.
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Paleogene fossils also document diverse extinct branches of the neornithine tree, ranging from large pseudotoothed seabirds to giant flightless land birds to small zygodactyl perching birds.
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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).
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This zygodactylous feet also enable the Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot to hang upside down to reach otherwise inaccessible fruits or flowers.
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Given the strong sexual dimorphism and barred, brown female plumage of the Courol, its semi-zygodactyl feet, strong, reinforced jaws, and habit of eating caterpillars, this proposed link - which, ironically, puts the Coural back where it started in 1783 - is intriguing (cuckoos have really interesting jaws, as do the possibly related turacos and hoatzins) [sexual dimorphism in the cuckoo
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