Parrots
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- Field guideHow feathers create colorGrowing feather cells place pigments and organize keratin, air spaces, and melanin bodies into precise structures. After the feather is dead, those materials absorb some wavelengths and scatter others, producing blacks, browns, reds, yellows, whites, blues, ultraviolet signals, and iridescence.
- Field guideDo elephants have names?Machine learning applied to hundreds of elephant rumbles recorded in Kenya could predict which elephant a call was meant for, and elephants perked up when they heard calls originally addressed to them. Because the callers do not seem to imitate the receiver's voice, the labels look more like human names than like dolphin whistles.