VERY interesting concept and it deserves more research.
https://phys.org/news/2019-03-feather-m ... umage.html
Feather mites help birds?!
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Feather mites help birds?!
by Pajarita » Mon Apr 01, 2019 10:14 am
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Re: Feather mites help birds?!
by Pajarita » Sat Apr 06, 2019 9:55 am
More on the same (this time with more details - only they got it wrong because we never thought that feather mites sucked blood, we thought they ate the feathers themselves).
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04 ... aner-birds
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04 ... aner-birds
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