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  • noun biology adaptation to living on the ground (rather than in the trees or seas)

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Examples

  • True terrestriality requires an obligate physiological commitment to life on land.

    What is a terrestrial animal? AYDIN 2008

  • Anyway, this phylogenetic data indicates that the ancestors of ground hornbills were woodland or forest birds, and that the unusual behavioural characters of ground hornbills – the carnivory, the terrestriality, the striding gait (other hornbills hop when on the ground), the savannah habitat – are derived novelties.

    Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah Darren Naish 2006

  • Anyway, this phylogenetic data indicates that the ancestors of ground hornbills were woodland or forest birds, and that the unusual behavioural characters of ground hornbills – the carnivory, the terrestriality, the striding gait (other hornbills hop when on the ground), the savannah habitat – are derived novelties.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • True terrestriality requires an obligate physiological commitment to life on land.

    Archive 2008-04-01 AYDIN 2008

  • Independent evolution of terrestriality in Atlantic truncatellid gastropods.

    A thesis on Truncatella AYDIN 2007

  • I suspect that such traits were crucial preadaptations for the evolution of true terrestriality in gastropods.

    Archive 2006-06-01 AYDIN 2006

  • Life at seashores, rocky or not, provide important clues to the evolution of terrestriality among gastropods.

    Archive 2006-09-01 AYDIN 2006

  • Independent evolution of terrestriality in Atlantic truncatellid gastropods.

    Archive 2006-06-01 AYDIN 2006

  • These snails appear to have evolved terrestriality relatively recently on the geologic time scale.

    Archive 2006-06-01 AYDIN 2006

  • Independent evolution of terrestriality in Atlantic truncatellid gastropods.

    Archive 2006-06-01 AYDIN 2006

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