The anatomy of the bill tip of kiwi and associated somatosensory regions of the brain: comparisons with shorebirds.
Three families of probe-foraging birds, Scolopacidae (sandpipers and snipes), Apterygidae (kiwi), and Threskiornithidae (ibises, including spoonbills) have independently evolved long, narrow bills containing clusters of vibration-sensitive mechanoreceptors (Herbst corpuscles) within pits in the bill...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013
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