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playing key roles in marine food chains , auks, with their unique adaptations, including breeding behavior, add to the human fascination with nature. despite these values, auks have sometimes suffered greatly from anthropogenic factors. the great auk was hunted on such as significant scale for food, eggs
opposed to plovers (a much older charadriiform lineage), auks radically changed from a wading shorebird to a diving seabird lifestyle. thus, today, the auks are no longer separated in their own suborder (alcae), but are considered part of the lari suborder that otherwise contains gulls and similar birds...
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