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The science behind the vulturine guinea fowl’s striking feathers
On the open savannas of East Africa, a flock of vulturine guinea fowl looks almost unreal. Bodies are patterned with crisp black and white lines. Chests and backs glow a deep, cobalt blue. Against the ...
The vulturine guinea fowl’s electric blue feathers are not pigments. (Image: Canva) Vulturine guinea fowl's blue feathers come from microscopic structures, not pigment. Feather patterns help flock ...
A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...
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