Some hummingbird females display male coloring to avoid being harassed

Mongabay
Nov 23, 2021, 12:26 pm210 pts
Female hummingbirds sometimes look like the brightly colored males of their species. Researchers have long pondered the reason for this. Now, a study of hummingbirds in Panama suggests that sporting male-like feathers helps some females avoid intense bullying, researchers recently reported in Current Biology.…

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