Online repositories of photographs and videos provide insights into the evolution of skilled hindlimb movements in birds

Abstract The ability to manipulate objects with limbs has evolved repeatedly among land tetrapods. Several selective forces have been proposed to explain the emergence of forelimb manipulation, however, work has been largely restricted to mammals, which prevents the testing of evolutionary hypothese...

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Published in:Communications Biology
Main Authors: Cristián Gutiérrez-Ibáñez, Clara Amaral-Peçanha, Andrew N. Iwaniuk, Douglas R. Wylie, Jerome Baron
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-08-01
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05151-z