Question

What are the features peculiar to ratite Birds? Give two examples of ratite birds.

Answer 1

Answer:    

There are some peculiar features to ratite birds.

• Ratite birds are unable to fly.

• Their breast bones are smooths (raft-like)
• Their flight muscles cannot be anchored.
• These are large birds of all time like Moa and Elephant birds belong to this group.
• Examples of some ratite birds are Ostrich, Kiwi, Emu.

Answer 2

Ratite birds are birds that cannot fly. The examples are ostrich and the American Rhea.  

Explanation:  

• These ratite birds are peculiar birds that cannot fly but have long legs, but there are few exceptions that are the nocturnal ratites that have very short legs.  

• These birds are usually descendants of Gondwana, a continent that was present during the Jurassic periods.  

• From there due to continental drifts they have scattered everywhere.  

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