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Bird Uses 'Whiskers' Like a Cat Monday, March 17, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Biology   
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According to a recent study made in Memorial University in St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, Fancy feathers are usually thought to be just ornaments, but a pair of biologists has shown that a little seabird uses the plumes on its head like a cat’s whiskers to feel its way through dark crevices. Aptly named whiskered auklets (Aethia pygmaea) breed on the volcanic Aleutian and Kuril Islands that rim the north Pacific. (source: nature.com)
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hi i can't find birds in whiskers and nothing is contained or what im talking about i want to find birds with whiskres now. |
