New Zealand's kākāpō developed different feather colors to evade predatory birds, genome sequencing shows

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Sep 10, 2024, 2:00 pm230 ptsTop
Aotearoa New Zealand's flightless parrot, the kākāpō, evolved two different color types to potentially help them avoid detection by a now-extinct apex predator, Lara Urban at Helmholtz AI, Germany and colleagues from the Aotearoa New Zealand Department of Conservation and the Māori iwi Ngāi Tahu, report in…

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