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Quail Egg on Sand

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When it comes to camouflage, ground-nesting Japanese quail are experts. That’s based on new evidence published online on Jan. 17 in Current Biology that mother quail “know” the patterning of their own eggs and choose laying spots to hide them best.

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Lovell et al., <i>Current Biology</i>

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