What Is a Bird?

Series: Biology (Spanish Series Unit 7 - Animal Classification and Physiology

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1962

Creator: Encyclopedia Britanica Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: With teacher's guideTraces the evolutionary relationship between birds and reptiles, and explains how the bird's skeletal structure gradually adapted to the requirements of flight. Uses close-up photography, animated drawings, and laboratory experiments to show that birds are able to live in a wide variety of environmental niches because of their behavioral instincts and the adaptations of structural featuresCollaborator, Kenneth C Parkes, Describes how the body structures of birds are adapted for flight and how birds are able to live in a wide variety of environments. Illustrates the behavior patterns of birds and the evolutionary relationships between birds and reptiles.

Complete Record: With teacher's guide Traces the evolutionary relationship between birds and reptiles, and explains how the bird's skeletal structure gradually adapted to the requirements of flight. Uses close-up photography, animated drawings, and laboratory experiments to show that birds are able to live in a wide variety of environmental niches because of their behavioral instincts and the adaptations of structural features Collaborator, Kenneth C Parkes, Describes how the body structures of birds are adapted for flight and how birds are able to live in a wide variety of environments. Illustrates the behavior patterns of birds and the evolutionary relationships between birds and reptiles. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.