Birds are found worldwide and in all habitats. The largest is the nine-foot-tall ostrich. The smallest is the two-inch-long bee hummingbird. Everything about the anatomy of a bird reflects its ...

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy, functions similarly to a human cortex. It is the outer brain shell responsible for controlling perception and some ...

These lessons were designed to accompany the first two parts of the PBS Life of Birds series. Although this lesson plan was developed primarily for grades 9-12, teachers of elementary or middle ...

As indicated by the book's title, the subject matter covers in twelve chapters the comparative clinical anatomy and physiology of small exotic mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. The ...

Modern birds, along with certain snakes and fishes, have skulls whose jaws and palates are not firmly fixed in place.