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New World Vultures
Title: New World Vultures
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
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New World Vultures
Compare and Contrast: New World Vultures vs. Old World Vultures
Old morphological classification grouped all diurnal raptors together, into one large order named the falconiformes. Within that were five broad families, of which were the New World vultures, the osprey, accipitrids (hawks, eagles, owls, and the Old World vultures), the falcons, and the secretary bird of Australia. With modern technology, and through a process known as DNA-DNA hybridization, taxonomists have been able to see that …showed first 75 words of 690 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 690 total…feeding vultures. During the feeding process dominance shifts, one individual and then another asserts itself, only to lose preeminence to other, hungrier vultures.
Over time, these two groups of vultures have filled the same niche on different hemispheres of the globe. Evolution has made the two converge to share many similar features and many different ones. Each individual species has become specific to its habitat but they have all become alike at the same time.
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