Ballistic food transport in birds: the example of Casuarius casuarius
- Resource Type
- Authors
- M. Harte; Pierre Legreneur; Eric Pellé; M-A. Placide; V. Bels
- Source
- Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering. 15
- Subject
- animal structures
Food transport
Ecology
Biomedical Engineering
Bioengineering
General Medicine
Feeding Behavior
Biology
Computer Science Applications
body regions
Human-Computer Interaction
Birds
Feeding behavior
Beak
Animals
Digestion
human activities
- Language
- ISSN
- 1476-8259
In birds, the neck/head system, the beak, and the hyolingual structures show an exceptional degree of variation under the adaptive pressure that arose from the diversity of exploited food (Homberge...