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Meet the Megapode: The chick-like bird that buries its eggs on purpose, and the babies do not look back at their father again

Nature has unique surprises hidden in its embrace, and few creatures prove that better than a sturdy, big-footed bird most people have probably never heard of.While the vast majority of birds spend ...
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The Bird That Builds Its Own Incubator and Raises Itself

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maleo (Macrocephalon maleo) Megapode bird endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia, lays eggs in hot sand and abandons ENDANGERED© Riza ...
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The Bird That Invented Home Insulation

There are some animals you look at and wonder: How in the world did they evolve? One such bird is the megapode. This is a bird that, to carry on its species, creates a nest that incorporates materials ...
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How ornithologists Ravi Sankaran and K Sivakumar studied the rare Nicobar Megapode

Dr Ravi Sankaran is something of a legend in ecological circles, especially for his work on birds that are found in the most challenging landscapes that nobody bothered to study. But also because he ...
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The Bird That Builds Its Own Incubator and Raises Itself

Maleo (Macrocephalon maleo) Megapode bird endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia, lays eggs in hot sand and abandons ENDANGERED© Riza Marlon/Shutterstock.com Did you know that megapodes create natural ...