Sentences with phrase «male bowerbirds»

Male Bowerbirds, a modest - seeming species native to Oceania, have long been considered one of Nature's most memorable masters of courtship for the complex, ornamental shrines they build to impress their mates.

Female bowerbirds are very important to male bowerbirds, and the birdbot met enough of the males» mating criteria, so they considered it real.

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Male bowerbirds build bowers — twig tunnels furnished with decorations — that are designed to entice females and act as a stage for courtship and copulation.

Male bowerbirds, like the males of so many species, lure mates with displays of wealth.

Male bowerbirds use forced perspective — and impressive building skills — to woo the females of the species.

A male bowerbird typically lives 30 years and begins collecting objects for his courtyard by age 5.

Shifting Perspective A male bowerbird has arranged rocks from smallest to largest (right).

The female birdbot was able to fluff up its feathers, move its head, and crouch by rising up and tilting forward; crouching signals to a male bowerbird that a female is ready to mate.

The male bowerbird, for instance, creates a nest not for habitation, but purely for aesthetic display.

Not exact matches

Bigger is better for a female bowerbird in search of a mate, and males are prepared to manipulate perspective to convince them.

BIGGER is better for a female bowerbird in search of a mate, and males are prepared to manipulate perspective to exploit this.

In nearly every species of bowerbird, males impress females by building elaborate structures called bowers: long, twiggy corridors that open to a courtyard decorated with small objects.

And also like so many other males, bowerbirds exaggerate what they've got.

It remains to be seen, however, whether the bowerbird traditions exist because males are copying the decoration selection made by their more successful neighbors or whether the preferences of females dictate the males» choices of ornamentation.

A typically decorated bower of the spotted bowerbird and a male inspecting his nifty billwork (inset).

Younger males, who don't have as much home - decorating game as the older bowerbirds, will sneak in to other bowers and steal decorative items, like blue feathers, shells, bright berries, and colorful bits of plastic.

In 2012 ecologists Laura Kelley and John A. Endler, both then at Deakin University in Australia, confirmed that among the great bowerbirds in Queensland, how well a male generates these illusions can predict his mating success.

The view nowadays is that ornaments such as the peacock's stunning train, the splendid plumes of birds of paradise, bowerbirds» love nests, deer antlers, fins on guppies and just about everything to do with the mandarin goby are indications of male quality.

Patricelli's robot showed with its movements that female bowerbirds control the intensity of male mating displays.