Sentences with phrase «of bowerbird»

For this new work, Iglesias mimics the construction strategies of the bowerbird to create an immense, intricately adorned, sculptural environment.

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.

For her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, Gail Patricelli took a birdbot into the Australian rain forest to analyze the sexual selection of bowerbirds.

Not exact matches

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

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

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.

Differences in bower decoration within a single population of spotted bowerbirds come about because of local traditions, a new study finds, demonstrating a type of social learning rarely seen outside of primates.

Fashion - conscious bowerbirds may be the latest animals to show off a bit of culture.

Joah Madden of the University of Cambridge, U.K., and his colleagues examined bowers built by the spotted bowerbird, Chlamydera maculatain Taunton National Park in Queensland, Australia, and found local preferences for particular bower ornaments.

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.

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.

The fireproofing skills of the great bowerbird The intricate twig structures that bowerbirds build for courtship are surprisingly resilient to bush fires.

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

A female bowerbird is of far less importance to the casual human observer, and it is perhaps because of this indifference that the robot also fooled a number of humans.

Even before Kaplan and Miklósi introduced AIBO to Fido, a handful of animal researchers in Europe, the United States, and Japan were busy conducting experiments with their own animal robots, including a flirtatious bowerbird and a furry white ratbot.

She sat down with a mechanical engineer and watched videotapes of real bowerbirds.

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

From here, follow the Waterfall Way scenic drive an hour inland to reach the UNESCO - listed rainforest of Dorrigo National Park — it's brilliant for birdwatching, with satin bowerbirds among the most prized sightings.

The region is home to almost 400 species of birds including iconic species such as the southern cassowary, azure kingfisher, Victoria's riflebird and satin bowerbird.

A rich array of marsupials including eastern grey kangaroos, swamp and red - necked wallabies and short - beaked echidnas is on offer across the regions, with East Gippsland particularly attractive to travellers interested in shyer forest dwellers, including yellow - bellied and greater gliders, lace monitors, king parrots, eastern whipbirds, satin bowerbirds, numerous honeyeaters and the most famous songbird in Australia, the superb lyrebird.

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The bowerbird, an avian «installation artist,» is known for its obsessive scavenging of detritus to decorate elaborately designed habitats, or bowers.

The experience is not of this art world — like entering a fabulous abstract arbor made by a bowerbird, the creature that meticulously fashions structures from chewed berries, saliva, seashells, fruit, and flowers.

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Real bowerbirds like to make things and plant flowers, all as part of an elaborate mating ritual.

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.