Birds have internal goneds too, which it would be weird if they didn't. They are able to produce their wast sortf as one product and shoot it out. The birds that have probably the craziest e difference between males and females are these birds that do a thing called lecking. If you don't know what lecking is, it's now pretty fantastic. And in those birds, the females are brighter than the males really. So whoever is kind of attracting the most mates is going to be as decked out.
Birds! Horned screamers! Winged pirates! Professional bird-person and all around cool dude James Maley joins Alie to talk about bird mating, monogamy, the cult of ornithology, absurd birds, parrots that are smarter than your friends' kids, a surprising fact about owl ears and history's most tragically zealous bird nerds. If you love birds, you'll be at home. If a bird did you dirty, you'll open your heart and learn to love again.
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