Mary Bates, PhD

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Animals That Decorate Themselves

Longhorn Decorator Crab. Photo: Ratha Grimes, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license.For millenia, humans have decorated themselves with lotions, jewelry, makeup, clothing, and perfume. It turns out we're far from the only animal to do so. Animals from crabs to insects to birds also decorate themselves to blend in or stick out.Read my latest piece for National Geographic's Weird & Wild blog: Natural Bling: 6 Amazing Animals That Decorate Themselves.