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Bird with toxic feathers discovered in Papua New Guinea
#375964 - 11/04/23 01:25 AM

https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/programs/...uinea/102188416

One of the newly discovered toxic birds discovered in PNG by Kasun Bodawatta and his team.(Supplied: Ian Shriner)

"Researchers have discovered that two commonly found birds in Papua New Guinea have toxic feathers, with deadly neurotoxins.

Two men hold bird and smile.
Other poisonous birds have been discovered in PNG before, like this Ifrit.(Supplied: Knud A. Jønsson)

The brightly coloured regent whistler and rufous-naped bellbird were thought to be harmless songbirds until a recent discovery by a team from the University of Copenhagen.

Researcher Kasun Bodawatta says the birds have the same class of toxin found in the skin of poison dart frogs in South America.

Scientists believe that, like the New Guinean birds, these frogs obtain their toxic skin by feasting on related Melyrid beetle species."

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Re: Bird with toxic feathers discovered in Papua New Guinea [Re: lancaster]
#375988 - 12/04/23 09:37 AM

OR:

Toxic Bird with Feathers discovered in "WOKE" cities world wide

By The Way: Not to cheapen Lancaster's original post here, I find it interesting that a bird species developed similar toxin to Amazonian frogs.
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Re: Bird with toxic feathers discovered in Papua New Guinea [Re: 3DogMike]
#375989 - 12/04/23 10:28 AM

Could be, I can't tell. Looks like a bird.

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Re: Bird with toxic feathers discovered in Papua New Guinea [Re: DarylS]
#375996 - 13/04/23 03:47 AM

be careful with woke birds, being female ist the exeption there

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