Tongoenas Burleyi Was Largest Fruit-Eating Pigeon (IMAGE)

Florida Museum of Natural History

Tongoenas Burleyi Was Largest Fruit-Eating Pigeon

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Florida Museum researchers analyzed leg bone characteristics across the pigeon and dove family. The brown bones here belonged to Tongoenas burleyi, an unusually large canopy-dwelling pigeon. The white bones belong to the red-knobbed imperial pigeon, Ducula rubricera, another Pacific species.

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