Re: BEAKS, CASQUES & KINESIS

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Betty Cunningham wrote:

<some of the parrots are carnivourous though (or at
least omnivorous and feed off live sheep)-I'm thinking
of those New Zealand Keas (not the cars silly though
I've heard these ALSO eat cars)

  http://www.doc.govt.nz/cons/native/kea.htm
 
  Would the beak of a kea be moe analagous than a
herbivorous parrot?>

  Same general morphology, different feeding behavior;
life habitus does not always follow inferred
skeletal/soft-tissue morphology, though there are
useful correlates that are pretty close to the mark.
Gotta shut up now.


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