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Birds are cared for and prepared over a whole year for the highlight, which is the exhibition, where awards are given out.The bird is made up beautifully for the show.

In animal groups where specific individuals disproportionately influence collective decisions, the whole group’s performance may suffer if these individuals have incorrect information. Whether leaders in such situations can be replaced in their roles by better-informed group mates is an essential question in understanding the adaptive consequences of collective decision-making. With pigeons, they used a time-shifting procedure (from an artificially set day-night clock) to manipulate the predictability of directional error in navigational information from established leaders within the swarm hierarchy of carrier pigeons (Columba livia).

For some time, I have been asked to explain the influence of hormones on the moult. On this exceptionally complex event, science is in unanimous agreement: namely, that they do not know the finer details. It is one of the most mysterious physiological phenomena that remains largely unexplained.The fact is that whoever handles it well as an aficionado can make a difference.