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Megapode

British pronunciation/mˈɛɡəpˌəʊd/
American pronunciation/mˈɛɡəpˌoʊd/
Megapode
[NOUN]
1

large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs

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1So they check it not with the large feet for which they're named Megapode.
2For this strange prehistoric like bird, the Megapode, the eruption is like a call to commune with the ashes.
3This so-called mound is also seen in most other members of the birdsfamily, the megapodes.
4Or it could have been an ancestral feature that megapodes somehow retained: having an external heat source is common in reptile nests.
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