Feather Replacement in Birds
- 4 January 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 139 (3549) , 50-51
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.139.3549.50
Abstract
During natural molt in many birds, feathers of the old generation are passively pushed out of the follicles attached to the tips of the sheaths of incoming feathers.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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