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BIO 2215 Oklahoma City Community College
Dennis Anderson
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Feathers
No teeth
Flexible long neck
— One occipital condyle
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¢ Honey combed bones
is reduced, Air passes over the
Wing of f and bird
Hollow an areroplane regains
to avoid
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¢ Frigate bird
¢ / foot wing span
¢ 4 ounce skeleton
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hand bones DR ; AM RMT TM /TJ) y Stor 3 Ulna and radius: forearm Sclerotic
ribs A> aan i ae ib Humerus: arm ring
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Mandible
Quadrate
Fused clavicle
Scapular feathers (furcula)
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¢ Much lighter than
reptile or mammal
skull
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Trachea
Syrinx
Anterior air sacs
Posterior air sacs
Anterior air sacs Lung with parabronchi
Inspiration
Posterior air sacs Trachea
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Feather
Structure
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Adaptations for Flight
¢ Reduce body weight
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Follicle containing ovum Ovary -
Ruptured follicle
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Trang 20Beak Adaptations
¢ Ripping flesh
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Trang 21Beak Adaptations
° Eating seeds
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Trang 22Beak Adaptations
¢ Sucking nectar from flowers
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Trang 23Beak Adaptations
¢ Drilling wood
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Trang 24Beak Adaptations
¢ Catching fish
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Trang 25Beak Adaptations
¢ Basket-like bill to hold
fish caught under
water
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- Filtering
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Seizing Prey PR đẤ7^ Tearing Meat
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Trang 30Vision
¢ Up to 8 times keener
than human vision
° Each eye moves
indendtantly
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Trang 31Respiratory System
Nine air sacs
— Connect to lungs and
centers of bones
— Cools the bird
Fresh air always
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Eat insects, rodents
and weeds
Spread seeds for
flowers and trees
Food
Sport
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Trang 35Giant Moa
¢ New Zealand
¢ Hunted to extinction
about 1600
Trang 36Hummingbirds
¢ Fly up, down, left,
right, backwards and
upside down
¢ Wings beat 50 -200 times per second
¢ Heart rate =600 bom
¢ Eat 2/3 body weight each day
¢ Nectar, pollen &
insects
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Trang 37Precocial
— Down feathers
— Can walk and see
— Can feed themselves
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Evolutionary Path to the Birds
Sinosauropteryx between dinosaurs
arms andranalong _‘- Velociraptor fast runner was
the ground Its body This larger, covered with
filaments thatmay theropod (symmetrical This oldest known Dirds
have been used for possessed a and therefore bird had asymmetrical
insulation and that — swiveling wrist flightless) _ feathers, with a narrow-
are the firstevidence bone,atypeof feathers er leading edge and
also found aa oor i in edge It could probably
fly short distances
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necessary for flight
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Three-fingered manus (partially fused in modern birds)
Lunate wristbone
Toothed jawbones (modern birds toothless)
Furcula Saurian pelvis
\\ 4 Shoulder girdle
/ Sternum (larger
and keeled in ef” modern birds) Long tail (reduced đ E p Abdominal floating ribs
to pygostyle in io (lost in modern birds)
modern birds)
` Partially fused metatarsals
(completely fused in modern birds)
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Archaeopteryx skeleton
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Trang 44Evolution of Flight Running Hypothesis
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Trang 45Microraptor gul
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Trang 46Evolution of Flight Gliding Hypothesis
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Trang 50Order Pelecaniformes
¢ Gular sac
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Trang 54Order Passeriformes
Perching foot songbirds
9000 species Mocking bird Thrushes
Swallows Magpie Crow otarling Jays
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Trang 61Order Piciformes
¢ Two toes forward and
two toes backward
* woodpeckers
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