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Welcome to Creature Feature Production of IHeart Radio.

I'm your host of Mini Parasites Katie Golden.

I studied psychology and evolutionary biology, and today on the show it's another listeners' questions episode.

Every week, well, not every week, but but you know, occasionally I do these.

You write to me your questions and I try to answer them the best that I can.

Thank you so much for your emailed questions.

If you're listening to this and you're saying,

Hey, I have an evolutionary biology question, a question about animals and parasites and so on that I

would like answered, you can write to me at creaturefeaturepod at gmail.com. So let's get right

into your questions. Hi Katie. I found a new subreddit called Crowbro. There's lots of cute stories, pictures, and videos of people befriending or feeding Corvins.

I saw this lovely post, and I guess I have never seen Ravens this up close before. They're beautiful.

It looks like they have feathers coming from their face down their beaks a bit.

Is there any reason, evolutionarily, why they would need feathers on that part of their beaks a bit. Is there any reason evolutionarily

why they would need feathers on that part of their beak? Is this normal for more or all birds?

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