ratite

Definiciones

A member of a diverse group of mostly large, running, flightless birds that lack keels on their sternums, mostly extinct such as the elephant bird and moa, but including the extant cassowaries, emu, kiwi, ostrich, and rhea; formerly grouped together in the order Struthioniformes, and including the Paleognathae except the tinamous.

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“Against what was probably the general expectation, it became undeniable that New Zealand was indeed the home of huge ratite birds.”

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