Toucans use their beaks to peel and eat different kinds of fruit, which happens to be the kind of food they eat most often. Sometimes toucans will choose to snack on insects, frogs, or the eggs of other birds. Toucans get most of their water from the fruit they eat, so they don'...
It does not have any feathers like other birds. It has hair on its body. Each foot has four toes. Its beak(鸟喙) is very long. A kiwi likes a lot of trees around it. It sleeps during the day because the sunlight hurts its eyes. It can smell things with its nose. It's the ...
And here’s her plastron. Baby turtle is a different subspecies from Easty — she’s a true Eastern box turtle,Terrapene carolina carolina— so she should have stronger patterns on both her carapace and her plastron when she gets bigger. Her head my also be more vibrantly colored, although ...
I didn’t immediately freak out, because everyone has a nerve from the thigh running down to the inner side of the ankle and foot: the saphenous branch of the femoral nerve, which comes out of the anterior thigh (also highlighted in the above image). But when we traced back Brittany’s...
Birds develop an egg tooth while inside an egg. Along with this tooth, a baby bird also has a special muscle located in the back of its neck. This is often referred to as a pipping muscle. When the hatchling has grown bigger and begins to have trouble getting oxygen, it will begin to...
But I was busythat daygetting ready formy baby's 1st birthday partyand taking step-by-step pics weren't on the agenda. Sooo, I took them last week when I did the Angry Birds cake. Of course, it didn't come together quite as easily while the camera was going. The pictures arereally...
What are the Different Types of Lizard Species? What is a Pip Hole? What is a Monitor Lizard? Discussion Comments BySteamLouis— On Feb 04, 2013 @burcidi-- No, it doesn't look like a tooth at all. I've seen it many times on the chicks on our farm. It's a short stubble like...
Can they also be processes of the premaxillae? Or are they the maxillae? I think the former: read on. It’s hard to tell in part, of course, because of the horny beak which obscures whatever sutures might be up there at the front of the skull. I don’t want to remove that, pa...
baby turtle is an Eastern box turtlesensu stricto,Terrapene carolina carolinaf’rinstance). She already has pretty complex patterns of lines and spots on the sides and top of her head and on her beak, but she’s so small that you can’t really see them unless you take a photo and zoom...