“The heaviest males (best physical condition) make it known to other males through the length and number of ‘beards’, and thereby avoid bloody fights to ascend in rank which would occur if these signals did not exist”, Juan Carlos Alonso, main author and researcher in the Spanish National Museum of Natural Sciences (CSIC) informs SINC.Big thanks to Mattat the Destroyer of All that is Good for pointing me in the direction of the Bustard beard.
-The Pogonologist
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