Summary

This episode is all about the avian skeleton. So this is an episode about some basic anatomy of birds.

Bird bones and the avian skeleton are elegant, strong, and rigid.

Let’s put on our x-ray goggles, and peer inside the body of a bird, to see what’s going on with all those beautiful bones...

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Links of Interest

• Cranial kinesis in the skull of a Hyacinth Macaw [VIDEO]

Research Citations

• Scaling of Skeletal Mass to Body Mass in Birds and Mammals
• Bone density and the lightweight skeletons of birds
• Correlated evolution of neck length and leg length in birds

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