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#TIL Kakapo have two different plumage colour morphs! They can be green or olive, as depicted here, and researchers have even found the exact gene responsible! The perks of working on the only species with a sequenced genome for every single living individual (and quite a few dead ones)... https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002755