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Quetzal
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Message 31 of 60 (305828)
04-22-2006 12:11 AM
Reply to: Message 16 by Wounded King
04-21-2006 5:02 AM


Re: The tooth and nothing but the tooth.
Nope, no teethies. The hoatzin does have some unusual adaptations (like pre-gastric fermentation, it being the only obligate folivorous bird I know of), and odd bits of anatomy and ecology, however. And anyone seeing a live hoatzin can readily imagine (by squinting a bit) that they are looking at an archaeopteryx straight out of the Jurassic.
Here is a nice website with some good skeletal and other information on this weird bird.
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