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Old 30-07-2017, 01:18 PM
raymo
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It is a strange bird, in that it is the only bird to have a stomach that
ferments vegetation, enabling it to live entirely on buds and leaves etc:
and its chicks have a claw digit at the end of each wing, a bit like a bat.
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