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A genus of long-legged So. American birds (order Gruiformes) having a sole recent representative.

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  • What’s interesting about this is that the second toe claw in Cariama is slightly enlarged relative to those of digits III and IV (as you can see from the very poor...
  • Red-legged seriema (Cariama cristata) of the Cerrado grasslands of central Brazil.
  • Some of the most distinctive birds in the hotspot include two very large species, the rhea (Rhea americana) and the red-legged seriema (Cariama cristata), neither of...
  • Tonni & Tambussi (1988) described the foot morphology of the Miocene psilopterine Psilopterus and showed that its foot claws were nearly identical to those of the living...
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