On Peru’s arid coast, some ancient elites signaled their power and standing by wearing headdresses festooned with brilliantly colored feathers from birds found in distant rainforests. A study out today in Nature Communications reveals how they acquired these showy ornaments more than 800 years ago: from wild Amazonian parrots captured hundreds of kilometers away in the Amazon and transported, live, high over the Andes. “It’s extraordinary the effort people went to, to obtain these prestigious objects that didn’t have anything to do with food or subsistence,” says Calogero Santoro, an archaeologist at the University of Tarapacá who was not involved in the research. The effort underscores their value, notes José Capriles, a Pennsylvania State University archaeologist who was likewise uninvolved. “Feathers were incredibly important for signaling wealth and prestige and had deep social and religious meaning for Indigenous societies across the Americas.” The feathers analyzed in the new study come from tombs of a pre-Inca culture called the Ychsma on the arid coast near present-day Lima, Peru. Feathers adorn only select Ychsma graves within a complex known as the Pachacamac necropolis. “The highest status individuals have feathers,” says Lucía Watson Jiménez, a Lima-based bioachaeologist who works with Poland’s University of Wrocław and is not involved in the new study.

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When a wolf pack runs down its prey, the first on the scene is often the raven. Even before the predators have had time to dig in, the ravens are already in line, waiting to take advantage of the odd scrap of meat that becomes available. The speed with which the scavengers arrive at wolf kills is uncanny, and people had an explanation for how: ravens must be following wolves. But a new study that tracked ravens and wolves in Yellowstone National Park over two-and-a-half years shows that the scavengers use a far more sophisticated strategy. Ravens can remember where wolves are most likely to make kills and will return to those areas from far away. "They can fly six hours non-stop, straight to a kill site," says Dr. Matthias Loretto, the study's first author. Published in Science, the findings suggest that ravens use spatial memory and navigation to find food scattered over the landscape. "Ravens can cover large distances by flying, and they seem to have a good memory, so they don't need to constantly follow wolves in order to profit from the predators," says Loretto.

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