Tinamou | 台北市立動物園資訊網

Flight — Flight[edit] ... Unlike the related ratites, tinamous can fly, though poorly and reluctantly, preferring to walk or run. When forced to take to the air, ... Read More

All tinamou are from the family Tinamidae, and in the larger scheme are also ratites. Unlike other ratites, tinamous can fly, although in general, they are not ... Read More

The solitary tinamou (Tinamus solitarius) is a species of paleognath ground bird. This species ... All ratites evolved from prehistoric flying birds, and tinamous are the closest living relative of these birds. Formerly, this bird was divided into two ... Read More

Tinamous are the only members from their infraclass that aren't ratites, and can even fly, albeit poorly. All paleognaths evolved from prehistoric flying birds, and ... Read More

Unlike other ratites, tinamous can fly, although in general, they are not strong fliers. All ratites evolved from prehistoric flying birds, and tinamous are the closest​ ... Read More

由 J Altimiras 著作 · 2017 · 被引用 12 次 — The flight performance in tinamous is highly conditioned by their small heart and this could explain why tinamous avoid flying as much as ... Read More

The flight of tinamous is clumsy but swift and accompanied by a rumbling or whistling noise produced by the wings. The elegant crested tinamou (Eudromia ... Read More

2014年5月19日 — Published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, the surprising results show that tinamous and moas are more closely related to each other than ... Read More

由 MJ Phillips 著作 · 2010 · 被引用 212 次 — We infer flight to have been lost among ratites multiple times in temporally close association with the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event. This ... Read More