THE LIFE STYLE OF ARCHAEOPTERYX (AVES)

THE LIFE STYLE OF ARCHAEOPTERYX (AVES)

The lack of modern flight adaptations and flight maneuverability makes both ground-up take off and arboreal foraging of Archaeopteryx extremely improbable (even if trees were present in a part of its habitat). A combination of heights-down take-off and ground foraging necessitated a swift terrestri...

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Main Author: Andrzej Elzanowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 2015-10-01
Series:Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina
Online Access:https://www.peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/224
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spelling doaj-e4fa7c0cd6e84cd98da7a7a57ddd20c82021-02-02T15:51:08ZengAsociación Paleontológica ArgentinaPublicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina2469-02282015-10-0171THE LIFE STYLE OF ARCHAEOPTERYX (AVES)Andrzej Elzanowski0Institute of Zoology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw. The lack of modern flight adaptations and flight maneuverability makes both ground-up take off and arboreal foraging of Archaeopteryx extremely improbable (even if trees were present in a part of its habitat). A combination of heights-down take-off and ground foraging necessitated a swift terrestrial escape to a launching site and probably climbing elevated objects. Archaeopteryx does not show any distinctive cursorial specialization and the leg intramembral ratios suggest a slow-pace to multimode (i.e., using various gaits) forager, similar in behavior to today's tinamous and most galliforms. Archaeopteryx was an escape runner, not a cursorial predator. The limbs of Archaeopteryx and (non-avian) theropods reveal substantial functional differences, which make their similarities even more likely to be synapomorphic. KEY WORDS. Archaeopteryx. Birds. Paleobiological reconstruction. Flight. Locomotion. Foraging. Jurassic. https://www.peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/224
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description The lack of modern flight adaptations and flight maneuverability makes both ground-up take off and arboreal foraging of Archaeopteryx extremely improbable (even if trees were present in a part of its habitat). A combination of heights-down take-off and ground foraging necessitated a swift terrestrial escape to a launching site and probably climbing elevated objects. Archaeopteryx does not show any distinctive cursorial specialization and the leg intramembral ratios suggest a slow-pace to multimode (i.e., using various gaits) forager, similar in behavior to today's tinamous and most galliforms. Archaeopteryx was an escape runner, not a cursorial predator. The limbs of Archaeopteryx and (non-avian) theropods reveal substantial functional differences, which make their similarities even more likely to be synapomorphic. KEY WORDS. Archaeopteryx. Birds. Paleobiological reconstruction. Flight. Locomotion. Foraging. Jurassic.
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