2023-08-21

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Journey to the Microcosmos

One of the spectacular details of animals in our world is just how varied their colors can be. When you look at birds, for example, you’ll see everything from mundane grays to iridescent blues. So why don’t we shine with the same iridescence of birds?

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Stock video from:

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/beautiful-peacock-with-open-tail-stock-footage/1057143814

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/the-mandarin-duck-aix-galericulata-at-a-lake-in-munich-stock-footage/1369306503

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/beautiful-male-peacock-displaying-its-feathers-in-a-stock-footage/1412901099

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/parrot-macaw-on-the-tree-stock-footage/962168768

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/close-up-of-blue-eared-kingfisher-in-the-rain-stock-footage/1022012506

SOURCES:

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss3/pigments.html

https://ia800502.us.archive.org/25/items/micrographia15491gut/15491-h/15491-h.htm

https://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/~gebeshuber/Structured-color-physics.pdf

https://wonders.physics.wisc.edu/prisms/

https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/how-birds-make-colorful-feathers/

https://www.livescience.com/why-blue-rare-in-nature.html

https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/feathers-article/

https://elifesciences.org/articles/71179

https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/physrev.00059.2017

https://elifesciences.org/articles/71179

https://scitechdaily.com/microscopic-feather-features-explain-why-these-terrifyingly-dangerous-birds-shine/?expand_article=1

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