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Old 16-02-10, 06:30 PM
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“Male Great Bustards have developed a trick to make their elaborate mating displays even more alluring to females, a study suggests. The large birds lift and point their bottoms towards the sun, say scientists, making their bright white tail feathers more conspicuous”, so starts a report by Victoria Gill on the BBC News website.A happy [...]

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