whimsical question

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Subject:	whimsical question
From:	Timothy Hyde <>
Date:	Mon, 25 Feb 2002 18:17:19 +1100

While spending a relaxing day at the 
Rylstone Show on saturday
a question arose.

Asymmetrical patterning in birds.

Are there any examples?

We see it in Dogs, (Dalmations)
Horses (Pintos)
Cattle (the big spotty ones)
Fish  ?

but do birds do it?

no prizes offered

(There are some physical asymetricals of course
Crossbills etc, and some birds in a changeover moult
could display a random pattern, Satin Bower Bird, Ptarmigans)


Timothy Hyde
Blue Mountains / Capertee valley
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