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источник: WitmerLab at Ohio University As a Random Act of Anatomy, here’s a quick demo of cranial kinesis in a hyacinth macaw, the largest flying parrot. WitmerLab grad student James Nassif dissected this specimen (OUVC 10883), and then we fed it to the dermestid beetles, who really liked it! Today it came out of the disinfecting hydrogen-peroxide/ammonia bath, and so I took the opportunity to film a quick video before it dried. This project was funded by our NSF grant to study the evolution of avian kinesis. some may be seeing this video as their first exposure to WitmerLab, let me make clear that this macaw was not sacrificed for our research but rather was a natural casualty of a captive-bred bird that we were able to obtain for our studies. That’s true for all the animals you’ll see on our web sites.
