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Patterns in Nature: Scales and Feathers

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A fan of black-chinned sparrow (Spizella atrogularis) feathers captures the light. When birds pull their feathers apart to clean them, the barb filaments simply zip back together by themselves. Photograph by Tom Murphy

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