Extant Birds
Anseriformes and Columbiformes
What are "Ducks/Geese and Pigeons"?
Archosauria includes alligators, crocodiles, and ________.
What are gharials (Gavialidae)?
Name that animal: don't drink water!, produce metabolic water!, have nasal salt glands!
What are chuckwallas?
Adaptive hypothermia
What is torpor?
Largest flying bird (busted!)
What is the Kori Bustard?
Largest extant flightless bird
What is "ostrich?"
Similarities between crocodiles and birds are parental care, vocalization and ______________.
What is "oviparity?"
Name that animal: constructs a burrow 60 cm deep in September, retains high body fluid osmolarity, fast metamorphosis.
What are spadefoot toads?
Range of body temperatures where metabolism is constant.
What is thermal neutral zone?
Body feathers
What are "contour" feathers?"
Young hatch feathered and self-sufficient
What is "precocial?"
Two possible function of early feathers that we discussed in class.
What are social interactions and insulation?
Name that animal: lizard that can supercool to -5.5C
What is the Yarrow's spiny lizard?
The increase in metabolism following feeding.
What is SDA (specific dynamic action)?"
One male with multiple females
What is "polygyny?"
Share responsibility for a clutch of eggs but not fidelity.
What is "social monogamy?"
"From the trees down"
What is "arboreal theory" for origin of flight?
Some amphibians use this molecule to keep from freezing.
What is glycerol?
My rete mirabile keeps my ______ cool!
What is the brain?
Young hatch naked and dependent on parents for food.
What altiricial young?
Three main eye shapes and birds which have each of them.
What are...
1) flat - most birds
2) globular - most falcons
3) tubular - owls
Earliest known bird with flight feathers
What is Archaeopteryx?
Endotherms use 90% of their energy for __________.
What is heating/heat production?
Two of the three "Production" parts of the energy budget.
What are storage, reproduction, and growth?
One example of birds without a keel
What is "ostrich, rhea, cassowary, or kiwi?"