The Effects of Environmental Noise on Zebra Finch Beaks

The way that color happens, Hank can correct me because I'm rusty on chemistry. It's like the way that electrons are arranged. And if you can excite them, so the ultraviolet light inputs energy into the system, makes the electrons jump up an energy level. When they relax, back down to a lower energy level, they spit out the color. The jumping and falling thing is why I failed chemistry in all those other classes. But I guess when you're shining all different lights on stuff, you're getting all kinds of crazy reactions, right? Yeah. Color is very weird.

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