Eulipoa wallacei

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Eulipoa wallacei, commonly known as Wallace's scrubfowl or Moluccan megapode, is a ground-dwelling bird from Indonesia that incubates its eggs in warm sand or soil using geothermal or solar heat instead of brooding them.

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Eulipoa 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf avian
bird species
megapode
vertebrate
activityPattern nocturnal at nesting grounds
binomialName Eulipoa wallacei self-link
breedingSystem colonial nester
broodingBehavior does not brood eggs with body heat
chickCharacteristic superprecocial at hatching
class Aves
commonName Megapodius freycinet
surface form: Moluccan megapode

dusky scrubfowl
surface form: Wallace's scrubfowl
describedBy George Robert Gray
diet omnivorous
distributionRegion Wallacea
eggCharacteristic large egg size relative to body
endemicTo Maluku Islands
family Megapodiidae
foragingStratum ground
foundOnIsland Ambon
Banda Islands
Buru
Halmahera
Haruku
Seram
genus Eulipoa wallacei self-linksurface differs
surface form: Eulipoa
habitat scrubland
secondary forest
tropical forest
incubationSubstrate warm sand
warm soil
IUCNStatus Vulnerable
kingdom Animalia
movementPattern altitudinal migration between forest and nesting beaches
namedAfter Alfred Russel Wallace
nativeTo Indonesia
Maluku Islands
nestingSiteType beach
coastal slope
order Galliformes
phylum Chordata
reproductiveStrategy egg burial in warm substrate
taxonRank species
threat egg collection by humans
habitat loss
usesIncubationMethod geothermal heat incubation
solar heat incubation

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Eulipoa wallacei binomialName Eulipoa wallacei self-link
Megapodiidae containsTaxon Eulipoa wallacei
Eulipoa wallacei genus Eulipoa wallacei self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Eulipoa