Love the wildlife is a photograph by Guido Montanes Castillo which was uploaded on February 1st, 2013.
Title
Love the wildlife
Artist
Guido Montanes Castillo
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Photograph
Description
Love the wildlife
�The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated�
Mahatma Gandhi
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A wide variety of birds have been proposed as their closest relatives, on a wide variety of evidence. As a result, flamingos are generally placed in their own order.[citation needed]
Traditionally, the long-legged Ciconiiformes, probably a paraphyletic assemblage, have been considered the flamingos' closest relatives and the family was included in the order. Usually the ibises and spoonbills of the Threskiornithidae were considered their closest relatives within this order. Earlier genetic studies, such as those of Charles Sibley and colleagues, also supported this relationship.[1] Relationships to the waterfowl were considered as well,[2] especially as flamingos are parasitized by feather lice of the genus Anaticola, which are otherwise exclusively found on ducks and geese.[3] The peculiar presbyornithids were used to argue for a close relationship between flamingos, waterfowl, and waders,[4] but they are now known to be unequivocal waterfowl.[5]
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February 1st, 2013
