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The Bauer Bird
In 2020, scientists from the Netherlands Cancer Institute reported that they had discovered a pair of salivary glands that were previously unknown. These glands are situated at the point of the nasal cavity where that hitched the throat. The male Bauer Bird is found in Australia and New Guinea and named after the stick structures the males make to impress females. In addition to these scavenged decorations, the male Bauer Birds also spit shine the place by chewing plants and berries,. mixing those with saliva to make a kind of paint. And for some reason, more time spent painting also corresponded with more mating success. So really love a painterly male.
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