Honestly, when you see them, do you inexplicably think of a movie you just watched? Do they look like the little monsters that escaped from Jurassic World?
These are mysterious strange birds from the Amazon rainforest. It is not an exaggeration. It is said that they may be the closest relationship to dinosaurs on the existing earth, and they are also the most confusing birds in taxonomy - [Mulk Pheasant Opisthocomus hoazin]! !
There is no need to expand on the peculiar appearance of musk pheasants . They are very different from other birds in several ways:
① Musk pheasants are purely herbivorous birds. 82% of their diet is leaves, and the rest is fruits and Seeds, in order to deal with these leaves, they have evolved a very peculiar crop to cultivate bacterial digestion. convergent evolution has a mechanism similar to the function of the cow rumen!
② Musk pheasant chicks will have small claws on their wings to climb branches. The combination of these claws makes them look like Archaeopteryx , but these small claws will automatically fall off after adulthood ~
③ Musk pheasant cannot be found Close relatives, so they are temporarily classified into the genus Musculus, order Musculidae, and they are the only species in the genus Musculus... A genetic test in 2015 speculated that they may be directly derived from the extinction of the earliest non-avian dinosaurs 64 million years ago. The relics of birds after are very similar to the platypus among mammals
Finally, because of their food, musk deer always smell like feces, so humans rarely prey on them. However, because of the Amazon forest was used by South Americans to start a prairie fire. Their situation is also very worrying. Protect the Amazon and the mysterious little monsters like musk pheasants inside
