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Re: AW: Heterodontosaurid with protofeathers

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Subject: Re: AW: Heterodontosaurid with protofeathers
From: Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:37:25 +1100
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Quoting Dan Chure <danchure@easilink.com>:

> What are the poisonous extant birds?

Pitohuis from Papua New Guinea. Their bodies contain batrachotoxins, much like 
those of poison 
dart frogs. Just like in the frogs, they acquire their toxins from their diet 
rather than make it 
themselves.

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/ZooGoer/2001/2/intoxnewguineabirds.cfm

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References:
- AW: Heterodontosaurid with protofeathers
  - From: evelyn sobielski <koreke77@yahoo.de>
- Re: AW: Heterodontosaurid with protofeathers
  - From: Amtoine Grant <rascienz@shaw.ca>
- Re: AW: Heterodontosaurid with protofeathers
  - From: Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>

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