Kuala Lumpur Bird Park 8pm) is also accessible from the car park for diners who do not wish to enter the park. Feeding time: Hornbills: 11:30am Zone 4: This zone has a walk-in parrot enclosure with 20 different species of parrots such as Macaws, Cockatoos, Lories and Parakeets. It also features the Flightless Birds exhibit with Emu, Ostrich and Southern Cassowary. Don't miss the feeding station (near the Bird Gallery) that allows visitors to hand feed these flightless birds. The air-conditioned Bird Gallery, Education Station and Bird School teaches visitors more about avian life. The Education Station has egg incubators where visitors can see
Flightless bird free to increase in abundance until the population was limited by food and territory. A study looking at energy conservation and the evolution of flightlessness hypothesized intraspecific competition selected for a reduced individual energy expenditure, which is achieved by the loss of flight. Some flightless varieties of island birds are closely related to flying varieties, implying flight is a significant biological cost. Flight is the most costly type of locomotion exemplified in the natural world. The energy expenditure required for flight increases proportionally with body size, which is often why flightlessness coincides with body mass. By reducing large pectoral muscles