Hard bites and slow songs: How beak size affects the singing and evolution of songbirds
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Hard bites and slow songs: How beak size affects the singing and evolution of songbirds
How do they remove the husk of a seed without crushing the nutritious inner kernel? Which beak movements are involved in such a sophisticated task? How fast does the beak move? To answer these ...