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Culmen measurements
What are culmen length & depth? The culmen is “the upper ridge of a bird’s beak” (definition from Oxford Languages). In the simplified penguins subset, culmen length and depth have been updated to variables named bill_length_mm and bill_depth_mm.
For this penguin data, the bill/culmen length and depth are measured as shown below (thanks Kristen Gorman for clarifying!):
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