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The Turtle and the Parrot

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Here we have the lower jaws of two beaked animals, a turtle (the Loggerhead Caretta caretta, a sea turtle, and a member of the cryptodire side of living turtledom) and a parrot (the Yellow-Crowned Amazon Amazona ochrocephala, a psittacid and thus an \"ordinary\" psittaciform, unlike the macaws and lories, which have different jaw morphologies).

The jaws are shown in side and top views without and with the beak (or rhamphotheca), where in the last you see the jaw in views with only the outline to show its shape and thus relation to the underlying bone.
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Gormanmod's avatar
well made show of similar functions in nature.