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Amazing Creations 78

Richard Gunther

How can you tell if two different-looking animals come from the
same family?
One way is to see if they interbreed.
A case in point is the peach-faced lovebird and the Fischer's lovebird.
They both belong to the African lovebird family, but they live so far
apart they normally never meet.
But when they do meet, they produced a cross between them.
The interesting thing here is that the peach-faced collects nesting
materials by tucking them under its feathers, while the Fischers
collects them in its beak.
When the offspring try to build a nest, the hybrid bird gets confused.

To tuck or not to tuck?

So strong is the instinct to tuck that the hybrid goes through the
ritual of tucking before carrying the grass in its beak.
This shows that the instinct is not learned, but inherited.
It is written in the DNA code - by the Creator who also gave birds
the ability to build nests.