Birds prefer walls for wild flirting
Spotted bowerbirds flirt through a wall, even when researchers rearrange the courting ground.
References:
Borgia, G., and D.C. Presgraves. 1998. Coevolution of elaborated male display traits in the spotted bowerbird: An experimental test of the threat reduction hypothesis. Animal Behaviour 56(November):1121.
Further Readings:
Borgia, G. 1995. Complex male display and female choice in the spotted bowerbird. Animal Behaviour 49(May):1291.
Pruett-Jones, S., and M. Pruett-Jones. 1994. Sexual competition and courtship disruptions: Why do male bowerbirds destroy each other's. Animal Behaviour 47(March):607.
Additional information about bowerbirds can be found at http://www.wam.umd.edu/~borgia/bowerbirds/bowermain.htm.
Sources:
Gerald Borgia
University of Maryland, College Park
Department of Biology
College Park, MD 20742-4415Anders P. Møller
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Laboratoire d’Ecologie
CNRS URA 258
Bat. A, 7eme etage
7, quai St. Bernard, Case 237
F-75252 Paris Cedex 5
FranceDaven Presgraves
University of Rochester
Department of Biology
Orr Laboratory
Box 270211
Rochester, NY 14627-0211Stephen Pruett-Jones
University of Chicago
Department of Ecology and Evolution
1101 East 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 21, November 21, 1998, p. 326. Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.
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