What is the difference between a contour plot and a bifurcation plot?

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On Wolfram Alpha it will offend give you a contour plot, and it has similarities to a bifurcation plot with respect to a variable and a parameter.

What is the difference between a contour plot and a bifurcation diagram?
 
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I'm not familiar with Wolfram Alpha but the two plots are very different things. The contour plot is a set of level curves of constant function value, like a topographical map. A bifurcation diagram plots the location of fixed points in the independent variable as a function of some parameter in the equation.