Assertion: hoatzin's crop | /r/HasProperty | large
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The crop of the hoatzin is so large as to displace the flight muscles and keel of the sternum, much to the detriment of their flight capacity.
text: The crop of the hoatzin is so large that it displace the flight muscles and keel of the sternum.
text: However evolution operated on part of their digestive anatomy called the crop a feture common to birds to make it function much like a cow's rumen and as a result the crop is so large that it displaces muscles that otherwise would have been used for flight ..
text: To handle this fibrous diet, the hoatzin has evolved a very large crop, or gizzard, in which it grinds up the tough cellulose fibers of the leaves.
text: The crop is so large that it accounts for about one-third of the adult bird
text: The crop of the hoatzin is so large that it displaces the flight muscles and keel of the sternum.
text: But hoatzins have particularly large crops (pouches that resemble stomachs where food is held) containing enzymes that attack food and break it down.
text: The internal anatomy of the Hoatzin is notable, too - it has a very large crop that fermates vegetable matter like mammalian ruminants, a structure that isn’t found in any other known dinosaur (not to say this might not have evolved in extinct forms; we just don’t have fossil evidence for it).
text: The crop of the Hoatzin is so large as to displace the flight muscles and keel of the sternum, much to the detriment of their flight capacity.
text: To handle this fibrous diet, the hoatzin has evolved a very large crop, or gizzard, in which it grinds up the tough cellulose fibers of the leaves.
text: The crop is so large that it accounts for about one-third of the adult bird's 28 oz (793 g) body weight.
text: The crop of the hoatzin is so large that it displaces the flight muscles and keel of the sternum.
text: The crop of the Hoatzin is so large as to displace the flight muscles and keel of the sternum, much to the detriment of their flight capacity.
text: It has a large crop that uses bacteria to break down the leaves that it eats.
text: However, unlike ruminants with a rumen, hoatzins have a large crop, which folds in two chambers, and a large, multi-chambered lower esophagus.
text: As a result, the crop is so large that it displaces muscles that otherwise would have been used for flight.
text: Its large crop full of anaerobic bacteria help it digest the leaves by a process of fermentation.
text: In addition to foregut fermentation, the hoatzin has a highly modified skeleton to accommodate its large crop, and in the young of this species, wing claws at the wrist joint which are used to climb among the branches of the nest tree.