Recio wrote:
Pity German is a so complicated language!!!
Even for natives.
Recio wrote:
The information in this web site is very important and I guess it comes from an international publication, very probably itself written in English. Could we acces the original report?
Hm, don't know if there is an original? The pics of the feather structure look excatly like the one in the book of Terry Martin. So probably some of the notes are taken from it too. I don't know but i can ask if you want.
Recio wrote:
There are somethings which are not clear to me. They say that Misty shows a reduction in eumelanin but when looking at the next schema, eumelanin seems to be increased. I guess this is something related to the intrafeather distribution of melanin but I can not grasp it from this web.
They say the eumelanin is reduced marginal ("minimalen Eumelanin-Reduktion") but is stored in a more voluminous way. You can compare it with a glass of milk which is half empty (or full). This state should represent the eumelanin for a wildtype feather. For misty you put a drinking straw into the glass and take a small sip of milk. After that you blow into the drinking straw and get a nice milk foam on top.
And so the volume of the milk (Eumelanin) has seemingly increased although it was reduced by a small portion.
greetings.