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Papua New Guinea's megapodes bury eggs near volcanoes to incubate chicks

Males do most of the work on maintaining and building nesting ground, adjusting them to make temperatures ideal for ...
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The bird that builds its own incubator and raises itself

Did you know that megapodes create natural incubators for their chicks? That’s right, these chicken-like birds are known as ...
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Meet the Megapode: The chick-like bird that buries its eggs on purpose, and the babies do not look back at their father again

Nature has unique surprises hidden in its embrace, and few creatures prove that better than a sturdy, big-footed bird most people have probably never heard of.While the vast majority of birds spend ...
The Guardian

Megapodes alive and well on Fonualei

Ten years after a bold attempt to save the last megapodes of the Pacific islands, hundreds of the birds have been found living and breeding. The discovery doubles the number of malaus, as the ...
The Conversation

Tall turkeys and nuggety chickens: large ‘megapode’ birds once lived across Australia

The Pleistocene epoch (2.5 million years ago to 12,000 years ago) was a time of ecological upheaval in Australia. The climate fluctuated between warmer/colder and wetter/dryer periods, humans made ...
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The Bird That Builds Its Own Incubator and Raises Itself

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maleo (Macrocephalon maleo) Megapode bird endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia, lays eggs in hot sand and abandons ENDANGERED© Riza ...
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The Bird That Builds Its Own Incubator and Raises Itself

Maleo (Macrocephalon maleo) Megapode bird endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia, lays eggs in hot sand and abandons ENDANGERED© Riza Marlon/Shutterstock.com Did you know that megapodes create natural ...