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Potoos are one of the few birds that never build a nest—males and females take turns warming a single white egg with purple spots settled in a divot of a tree branch. When the baby is born, its feathers are pure white, and when it gets too large to safely hide under a parent, it learns how to freeze just so to resemble a patch of white mushrooms.
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
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