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Neotenous Budgerigar

grrlscientist | December 11, 2008

tags: budgerigar, pets, birds, documentary, streaming video This is a video of a very strange budgerigar. Apparently the result of a mutation, the bird's plumage is extraordinarily downy and long, so much so that it is almost impossible to see the bird's face (downy feathers are due to a mutation that causes a condition known as "neotenty"; where an adult animal takes on juvenile characteristics) [0:53]

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