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A hoatzin's meal takes up to 45 hours to pass through its body. [20] [22] [23] [24] With a body weight as low as 700 grams (1.5 lb), the adult hoatzin is the smallest known animal with foregut fermentation (the lower limit for mammals is about 3 kilograms or 6.6 pounds). [25]
The hoatzin is an arboreal species and is folivorous, feeding on leaves, flowers and fruits of a small number of plant species. [1] [7] It has a large crop that uses bacteria to break down the leaves that it eats. [7] The hoatzin is unique because it has bacteria in its crop that breaks down its food while it is still in the crop.
It is a member of the family Opisthocomidae, which also includes the hoatzin and several other extinct genera. The only known species is Hoazinoides magdalenae.Its generic epithet refers to its resemblance to modern hoatzin, and its specific name refers to its discovery near the Magdalena River basin.
Inopinaves is a clade of neoavian birds recovered in a compressive genomic systematic study using nearly 200 species in 2015. It contains the clades Opisthocomiformes and Telluraves (core landbirds); the study shows that the hoatzin diverged from other birds 64 million years ago. [2]
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Gruae [3] is a clade of birds that contains the order Opisthocomiformes (hoatzin) and Gruimorphae (shorebirds and rails) identified in 2014 by genome analysis. [4] Previous studies have placed the Hoatzin in different parts of the bird family tree; however, despite its unusual and primitive morphology, genetic studies have shown the hoatzin is not as primitive or as ancient as once thought ...
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Israel has killed much of Hezbollah's military command and senior leadership in nearly a year of fighting that began when Hezbollah opened a front in solidarity with Palestinians the day after ...