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Picture of a rooster with extremely long feathers draped over and around trees in a garden while two men look on

Fantastic Feathers

Two men observe a prized long-tailed rooster on Shikoku Island, Japan. On the left is the rooster's breeder, and to the right is avian physiologist Frank X. Ogasawara, who received a grant to study the birds and wrote about his findings in the December 1970 issue.
Photograph by Eiji Miyazawa, Nat Geo Image Collection