黑料导航

Research by Postdoctoral Fellow聽Edwin Dickinson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor聽Michael Granatosky, Ph.D., and NYITCOM student聽Melody Young聽appeared in the聽,听,听,听and others. The findings suggest that parrots use their beak as a third limb to swing from branch to branch, much like monkeys. Dickinson tells聽New Scientist聽that animal anatomy and behaviors don鈥檛 always match up in obvious ways; animals can co-opt body parts to do things beyond the purposes for which they evolved. 鈥淚n the case of the parrots, you鈥檙e basically using your feeding system to move, and that鈥檚 a pretty complicated task from a neurological perspective,鈥澛爃e says.聽