Painting lice (IMAGE)
Caption
The biologists painted the backs of feather lice, half with black paint, and half with white paint, and put them on black, gray and white pigeons. Lice painted the 'wrong' color -- black lice on white feathers and vice versa -- were 40 percent more likely to be preened than cryptically colored lice.
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Adapted from Bush et. al. 2019. Evo Letters
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