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Feathers puff or fat ball?

2013

MUSE - The Science Museum

MUSE - The Science Museum
Trento, Italy

Like all the other birds, when it’s very cold, the robin can inflate its plumage to make the insulating layer made of air bubbles - caught by the feathers filaments - bigger. With its head hidden under a wing not to disperse the heat, it looks like a ball… made out of feathers, since that under the plumage there is a very little fat.

Details

  • Title: Feathers puff or fat ball?
  • Date Created: 2013
  • Location: Muse, Trento, Italy
  • Photographer: Matteo De Stefano
  • Object Name: European robin - Erithacus rubecula - thermoregulation

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