An alternative name for a hemipod; a small ground bird found in warm regions of Africa and Asia.
A variant form of 'hemipod' using the Greek 'podos' (of the foot), common in scientific nomenclature during the 18th-19th centuries.
Hemipodes were originally classified with quails but genetic studies revealed they're actually more closely related to cranes—a perfect example of how DNA rewrites what we thought we knew about animal families!
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