02-15-2019, 10:38 AM
I was reading about this remarkable birdy and it came over here, and it did a thing called adaptive radiation. This is a process in which organisms diversify rapidly from an ancestral species into a multitude of new forms, particularly when a change in the environment makes new resources available, creates new challenges, or opens new environmental niches. Starting with a recent single ancestor, this process results in the speciation and phenotypic adaptation of an array of species exhibiting different morphological and physiological traits.
So basically, some honeycreepers came over here, and filled almost every ecological niche on the island that a bird can! As for my question, it is this: why didn't the honeycreeper evolve to eat fish? Hawai'i has extremely plentiful fish. It would seem to be a seabirds paradise, but there are none here.
Aloha
So basically, some honeycreepers came over here, and filled almost every ecological niche on the island that a bird can! As for my question, it is this: why didn't the honeycreeper evolve to eat fish? Hawai'i has extremely plentiful fish. It would seem to be a seabirds paradise, but there are none here.
Aloha
Aloha