Walking through the “Birds of Paradise: Amazing
Avian Evolution” exhibition at the National Geographic Museum can feel
decidedly otherworldly.
Part of it is the backdrop: lush foliage in
exotic rain forest canopies and a surrounding of dank green. But mostly it’s
the birds, in all their preening excess, that make visitors feel as though
they’ve landed in some groovy 1970s disco — birds with blue
feet and green iridescent faces. They’ve got swirls on their
backsides, which they know how to shake. They hop from foot to foot or — bam! —
suddenly transform their plumage into a shape like a comet or a trippy
psychedelic smile.
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