ratite

How To Use ratite In A Sentence

• Restrictions and slaughter provisions apply to domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, quail, ratites, pigeons, pheasants and partridges reared or kept in captivity.
• Living relatives of moa include the emus, ostrich, and kiwi, which are members of a bird group called ratites.
• So the ratite lineage combines aspects of both endemism and relictualism—endemism at the level of species, relictualism at the level of the group. The Song of The Dodo
• When the ratite birds first roamed Gondwana, they could walk from any of the places where they later dwelt, to any other.
• Less than 200 years ago, the ratites (named after the Latin for having a flattened sternum, a result of not needing powerful flying muscles) were still thriving. The Times Literary Supplement
• They are found in mammals, turtles, squamates, and crocodilians, as well as a few bird taxa, particularly ratites and ducks.
• Further data of the energetic cost of breeding for males and females of other ratite species would be valuable for testing that hypothesis.
• Cassowaries are large ratites, and are among the largest birds in the world.
• They're actually related to geese and ducks, the group anseriformes, whereas the moas, emus, cassowaries, ostriches and so on belong to a group called the ratites and they actually have small heads compared to their bodies.
• Ornithomimids were a distinctive group of theropod dinosaurs who show a good example of convergent evolution with the ratite birds, such as ostriches.