One thing I see in your building style and admire is the use of colours and textures for the walls. I struggle with it, after having the layout nailed I don't know how to fit those large planes of emptiness that contemporary architecture is made of. I am going to steal your idea for the feeder, using colourful bushes. With the wind blowing through they do somewhat remind me of squiggling and swirling insects. Interestingly a recent study proposes that Microraptor fed on mammals they shared their environment with, though Archaeopteryx has a jaw build more suited for tiny critters such as flying bugs, which seems to support some hypotheses on how they explored one way of taking to the air, gliding. Don't forget these two animals have almost 20 million years between them so even being part of the same dromaeosaurid family can lead to different survival strategies.
sorry the nerd in me cant take it, Microraptor convergently evolved powered flight to birds, both Dromaeosauridae and Archaeopterygidae are nested within paraves, however Archaeopterygidae is nested within Avilae, whereas Dromaeosauridae is outside of it, so they took to powered flight in very different ways solely because they evolved it independantly of each other
@@Boom-hw8ku Taxonomy on that side of the theropod tree is extremely complex so I simplified by taking the sickle claw as a thing they have in common. If you can recommend a video or article that describes and discusses the current theories from Maniraptoriformes down to Aves I'd be much obliged
@@NewAge374yeah sickle claws/enlarged second digits are incredibly common even today in birds and in older theropods like Dilophosaurus and Meraxes, so it's not the best thing to use as a diagnostic feature but totally understandable. In terms of literature, I can't give you one paper since every recent phylogenetic analysis of maniraptora and the clades nested within it find either Dromaeosauridae sitting just outside of Averaptora (Troodontidae and Aves), or Troodotidae and Dromaeosauridae clading together and that node being a sister clade to Avilae
@@Boom-hw8kuHmm reading this I remember that taxonomy is incredibly complex and no wonder there's constant debates on it following new finds or new ways to investigate. It doesn't help we can't get down to the gene level like we can with living animals. But mostly, I worry about how this science is reported to laymen, how can it be found useful for a random science enthusiast to know the exact phylogeny of extinct animals. Sci-comm as a field is necessary to help the public relate
@@NewAge374 im not saying it's useful, a lot of palaeo enthusiasts need to understand that very few things in palaeontology are actually "important" past furthering our understanding of the past, like someone who has no interest is not going to see knowing the exact phylogeny of extinct animals as important and i personally think that's okay. the only reason why i felt the need to correct you is because your aim was to inform but didnt get it exactly right. i wouldnt call scicomm a field either as someone who is by technicality a scicommer
@@SimplySavannahYT Bigger flying animals like pteranodon would be really cool but in the meantime what I like about PK is that they go for a less obvious way, making people discover some lesser known species. Dimorphodon would be cool as well, fitting with the small flying creatures we allready have.
when you select the exhibit itself there are extra detail option which do include a little house and hanging feeders I believe!
You can also select a foliage type for the trees who looks really nice !
I thought so, but when I looked I didn't see the option. I must have just missed it
One thing I see in your building style and admire is the use of colours and textures for the walls. I struggle with it, after having the layout nailed I don't know how to fit those large planes of emptiness that contemporary architecture is made of.
I am going to steal your idea for the feeder, using colourful bushes. With the wind blowing through they do somewhat remind me of squiggling and swirling insects.
Interestingly a recent study proposes that Microraptor fed on mammals they shared their environment with, though Archaeopteryx has a jaw build more suited for tiny critters such as flying bugs, which seems to support some hypotheses on how they explored one way of taking to the air, gliding. Don't forget these two animals have almost 20 million years between them so even being part of the same dromaeosaurid family can lead to different survival strategies.
sorry the nerd in me cant take it, Microraptor convergently evolved powered flight to birds, both Dromaeosauridae and Archaeopterygidae are nested within paraves, however Archaeopterygidae is nested within Avilae, whereas Dromaeosauridae is outside of it, so they took to powered flight in very different ways solely because they evolved it independantly of each other
@@Boom-hw8ku Taxonomy on that side of the theropod tree is extremely complex so I simplified by taking the sickle claw as a thing they have in common.
If you can recommend a video or article that describes and discusses the current theories from Maniraptoriformes down to Aves I'd be much obliged
@@NewAge374yeah sickle claws/enlarged second digits are incredibly common even today in birds and in older theropods like Dilophosaurus and Meraxes, so it's not the best thing to use as a diagnostic feature but totally understandable.
In terms of literature, I can't give you one paper since every recent phylogenetic analysis of maniraptora and the clades nested within it find either Dromaeosauridae sitting just outside of Averaptora (Troodontidae and Aves), or Troodotidae and Dromaeosauridae clading together and that node being a sister clade to Avilae
@@Boom-hw8kuHmm reading this I remember that taxonomy is incredibly complex and no wonder there's constant debates on it following new finds or new ways to investigate.
It doesn't help we can't get down to the gene level like we can with living animals.
But mostly, I worry about how this science is reported to laymen, how can it be found useful for a random science enthusiast to know the exact phylogeny of extinct animals. Sci-comm as a field is necessary to help the public relate
@@NewAge374 im not saying it's useful, a lot of palaeo enthusiasts need to understand that very few things in palaeontology are actually "important" past furthering our understanding of the past, like someone who has no interest is not going to see knowing the exact phylogeny of extinct animals as important and i personally think that's okay. the only reason why i felt the need to correct you is because your aim was to inform but didnt get it exactly right. i wouldnt call scicomm a field either as someone who is by technicality a scicommer
Glad to see this again!
I think it looks very pretty and it fits right in! :).
Thank you!
Great looking exhibits I hope we will get new aviary species soon !
Me too! What species would you be hoping for?
@@SimplySavannahYT Bigger flying animals like pteranodon would be really cool but in the meantime what I like about PK is that they go for a less obvious way, making people discover some lesser known species. Dimorphodon would be cool as well, fitting with the small flying creatures we allready have.
Archaeopteryx = ar-kay-OP-ter-ix.
Archaeopteryx is pronounced ar-key-opter-ix 😊 A bit hard to pronounce when seeing the name for the first time but thats science being science