BIZARRE BIRDS
Mike Bruton, ichthyologist, museum and science centre development consultant
Thursday 23 January 1.00 pm COURSE FEES R110; Staff and students R55
The soaring flight of birds suggests that they live in a carefree paradise, but the reality is that nature is ‘red in tooth and claw’ for birds as well as for all other animals. In this lecture we learn about bird evolution and diversity worldwide, the ever-present arms race between predator and prey, how they are superbly adapted for the demanding physiological requirements of flight and about their remarkable but restricted reproductive strategies. The lecture will also answer questions such as how birds evolved from dinosaurs, why birds are the only animals with feathers and hollow bones, why there are no birds that bear live young, why birds don’t have teeth and why over 60 species of living birds have abandoned the advantages of flight.
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