Boschian Paardavogel: Difference between revisions

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The '''boschian paardavogel''' split off from the [[plehexapod]] as populations moved away from hunting small insect-like creatures like [[vermees]] to hunting a wide variety of small game. This would lead to a variety of adaptations to chasing down more active prey like lizatokages or small [[shrew]]s. At first glance, the boschian paardavogel probably does not look too different from their ancestor. This is due to it retaining the long limbs for cursorial locomotion since they give it a larger stride length and thus cover move ground while using less energy.

The main differences are in the head and front limbs, with the boschian ~~paardavogel’s~~ hooked beak being well suited for ripping apart prey into small chunks that can then be swallowed. The bill is still made of wood, however, since the boschian ~~paardavogel’s~~ reproductive methods have not changed at all with a female still holding her young in a pouch. This pouch still gets filled with oxygen so the young can breathe, while the female does not eat and instead relies on fat reserves built up from eating large quantities of food beforehand. The male still aids in rearing the offspring by providing them fresh meat. Once the young become too big and unwieldy to safely carry, the mother will vomit up the juveniles, with the ~~jaw’s~~ ability to unhinge still helping to make the task easier. Due to the need for the taxon's jaws to be stretchy, however, the boschian paardavogel ~~can’t~~ make it tougher to better resist the stress of struggling prey.

The main differences are in the head and front limbs, with the boschian paardavogel's hooked beak being well suited for ripping apart prey into small chunks that can then be swallowed. The bill is still made of wood, however, since the boschian paardavogel's reproductive methods have not changed at all with a female still holding her young in a pouch. This pouch still gets filled with oxygen so the young can breathe, while the female does not eat and instead relies on fat reserves built up from eating large quantities of food beforehand. The male still aids in rearing the offspring by providing them fresh meat. Once the young become too big and unwieldy to safely carry, the mother will vomit up the juveniles, with the jaw's ability to unhinge still helping to make the task easier. Due to the need for the taxon's jaws to be stretchy, however, the boschian paardavogel can't make it tougher to better resist the stress of struggling prey.

Instead, the boschian paardavogel relies on its forelimbs to capture and kill prey, with the claw on these limbs having become large and serrated. Since these claws are the main killing tools, they often undergo a lot of stress from struggling prey so the evolution of calcified claws proved advantageous in the boschian paardavogel.

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 The '''boschian paardavogel''' split off from the [[plehexapod]] as populations moved away from hunting small insect-like creatures like [[vermees]] to hunting a wide variety of small game. This would lead to a variety of adaptations to chasing down more active prey like lizatokages or small [[shrew]]s. At first glance, the boschian paardavogel probably does not look too different from their ancestor. This is due to it retaining the long limbs for cursorial locomotion since they give it a larger stride length and thus cover move ground while using less energy.
-The main differences are in the head and front limbs, with the boschian paardavogel’s hooked beak being well suited for ripping apart prey into small chunks that can then be swallowed. The bill is still made of wood, however, since the boschian paardavogel’s reproductive methods have not changed at all with a female still holding her young in a pouch. This pouch still gets filled with oxygen so the young can breathe, while the female does not eat and instead relies on fat reserves built up from eating large quantities of food beforehand. The male still aids in rearing the offspring by providing them fresh meat. Once the young become too big and unwieldy to safely carry, the mother will vomit up the juveniles, with the jaw’s ability to unhinge still helping to make the task easier. Due to the need for the taxon's jaws to be stretchy, however, the boschian paardavogel can’t make it tougher to better resist the stress of struggling prey.
+The main differences are in the head and front limbs, with the boschian paardavogel's hooked beak being well suited for ripping apart prey into small chunks that can then be swallowed. The bill is still made of wood, however, since the boschian paardavogel's reproductive methods have not changed at all with a female still holding her young in a pouch. This pouch still gets filled with oxygen so the young can breathe, while the female does not eat and instead relies on fat reserves built up from eating large quantities of food beforehand. The male still aids in rearing the offspring by providing them fresh meat. Once the young become too big and unwieldy to safely carry, the mother will vomit up the juveniles, with the jaw's ability to unhinge still helping to make the task easier. Due to the need for the taxon's jaws to be stretchy, however, the boschian paardavogel can't make it tougher to better resist the stress of struggling prey.
 Instead, the boschian paardavogel relies on its forelimbs to capture and kill prey, with the claw on these limbs having become large and serrated. Since these claws are the main killing tools, they often undergo a lot of stress from struggling prey so the evolution of calcified claws proved advantageous in the boschian paardavogel.

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