Close up of two red-and-green macaws (IMAGE)

Princeton University

Close up of two red-and-green macaws

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Two Red-and-green Macaws (Ara chloropterus). Princeton biologists tested whether the psittacofulvin pigments in parrot feathers protected the feathers against damage caused by bacteria

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Octavio Campos Salles

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