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Flightless Birds Hardcover - 2006

by Clive Roots


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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. 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. Flightless Birds includes sections on the major groups of flightless birds: Rarities whose ancient ancestors were on the continents when they broke away millions of years ago, and who survived despite competing with mammals; birds that were marooned on islands in the ocean, where food was plentiful and predators absent; penguins, which evolved alongside seas teeming with food and had no need to fly, and the special case of New Zealand's many flightless species which evolved in a predator-free paradise but could not cope with the settlers and their alien animals; and the many species which have become extinct within historic times. Beautifully illustrated, with numerous color photos, Flightless Birds provides copious material for understanding these unusual animals.

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  • Title Flightless Birds
  • Author Clive Roots
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Greenwood, Westport, Connecticut
  • Date September 30, 2006
  • ISBN 9780313335457 / 0313335451
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 10 x 7 x 1 in (25.40 x 17.78 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Flightless birds
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006010619
  • Dewey Decimal Code 598.16

About the author

Clive Roots has been a zoo director for many years. He has traveled the world collecting live animals for zoo conservation programs. Roots has acted as a masterplanning and design consultant for numerous zoological gardens and related projects around the world, and has written many books on zoo and natural history subjects.
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