Labels:animal | bird | car | chair | earth | flag | flower | gazette | grass | newspaper | person | poster | rock | sculpture | sky | tree OCR: ORIGINS Marabou Stork with Old World vultures Willam Clark Growing evidence indicates that the cathartids are not true raptors and not members of the order Falconiformes They are classified by many ornithologists in the same order as the storks. Cathartide share more similarities with this Marabou Stork than with any of the Old World vultures Similarities to the storks include peri nasal septum long toes with straight claws ane similar DNA sequencing Like the storks, they use evaporation to keep cool by urinating or their legs The naked heads and soaring ability of both vulture types 16 believed to be the result of convergent evolution. These traits developed ir both birds because they share common feeding niche contents ontions quit bookmark last menu Maraboi William perforated 9305 leas ...