Let’s Start A Conversation ! 💬 #7 – Biological & Ecological News
Video published on my YouTube channel as part of the ‘Let’s Start A Conversation‘ playlist, that shares biological and ecological news in a fun and concise manner.
Sometimes, you live in a place where you find it hard to move around. Maybe you are not physically adapted to this place, like an elephant in a porcelain shop. Or maybe, it’s the way you move !
You would expect a bird to be flying around or hop on the ground. But the brightly coloured, rosy-faced lovebird can use its beak to go places.
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🔗 For a deeper dive, here are the sources and references ! Meanwhile, you can :
- Read the scientific article written by Dickinson et al. (2024) titled : ‘Beakiation: how a novel parrot gait expands the locomotor repertoire of living birds’ – https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do…
- Read the more digestible article by the Smithsonian magazine titled : ‘These Parrots Use Their Beaks to Swing Across Branches Like Monkeys’
- Watch the superb animation by @animationfilms114 called : ‘Elephant in the porcelain shop | CGI 3D Animated Short Film’
- Check the (numerous) YouTube videos I used as illustrations on the following channels :
- @IFLScienceOfficial for the beakiation footage, a novel and previously undocumented movement pattern seen in rosy-faced lovebirds
- @Natgeo.wild.21 for the short of gibbons brachiating
- @newatlantiswild for the suspended capuchins
- @SmithsonianChannel for the colugos gliding and the gibbons swinging
- @TheKingdom1 for the snake climbing a tree.
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