Look at those beautiful little fairy like feathers this gorgeous Sandhill Crane colt was sporting back in May. Let's see what Audubon has to say about the anatomy of feathers: "A feather develops much like one of our hairs—a meticulously constructed mass of dead protein pushed out from a follicle in the living skin. But unlike a simple hair, a growing feather branches into a structure of fractal complexity. It’s as if a tree were to rise not by developing an ever-more intricate system of branche