Maja Mielke<p>In my native language (German), we have an expression that says, “to stink like a hoopoe” (stinken wie ein Wiedehopf).</p><p>Indeed, hoopoes’ preen gland secretion can smell like rotten meat. But it turns out that the ‘stinkiness’ comes with quite some benefits for these <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a>.</p><p>The next post for my newsletter Beaks & Bones covers that phenomenon and will be published tomorrow!</p><p>You can subscribe here for free if you don't want to miss it:<br><a href="https://beaksandbones.substack.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">beaksandbones.substack.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/birdsofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>birdsofmastodon</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scicomm</span></a></p>