What Is a Bird?

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.

Credits

Produced by
Milan Herzog
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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.

More in Biology (Spanish Series Unit 7 - Animal Classification and Physiology

  1. What Is A Reptile 1961
  2. Segmentation: The Annelid Worms. 1962
  3. Single Celled Animals - Protozoa 1962
  4. Stinging - Celled Animals - Coelenterates 1962
  5. What Is a Bird? 1962
  6. What Is a Mammal? 1962
  7. What Is an Amphibian? 1962
  8. What Is a Fish? 1963

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