"Makeover" Birds Get Testosterone Jolt

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 13:56 in Biology & Nature

Male barn swallows whose breasts were artificially colored red were coveted by females and spurned by males, responses that changed their bodies' chemistry, a new study found.

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