[PDF.50pd] Avian Growth and Development: Evolution within the Altricial-Precocial Spectrum (Oxford Ornithology Series)

Avian Growth and Development: Evolution within the Altricial-Precocial Spectrum (Oxford Ornithology Series)

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 | #4339964 in Books |  J Matthias Starck |  1998-02-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.00 x1.40 x10.10l,2.19 | File type: PDF | 456 pages

 | Avian Growth and Development Evolution within the Altricial Precocial Spectrum

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Fantastic synthesis of avian growth|By Vireo|This book is required reading for those that study avian development. It's the best synthesis of avian growth and development out there today.| ||"When eggs hatch, neonatal birds range from naked, blind, highly altricial songbirds, totally dependent on parental warmth and feeding, through highly precocial megapods that use their fully functional beaks, legs, wings, and brains to dig their way out of in

This is the first re-appraisal in 50 years of concepts of development made in birds. This book is a case study in evolutionary diversification of life histories. Although birds have a rather uniform body plan and physiology, they exhibit marked variation in development type, parental care, and rate of growth. Altricial birds are fully dependent on their parents for warmth and nutrition and begin posthatching life in a more or less embryonic condition. At the other ex...

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