| 单词 | bowerbird |
| 例句 | Both, for example, highlight the bowerbird, a finicky aesthete whose males woo their mates in elaborate courts of flowers, shells, even bits of plastic. Birds and Horses and Eels, Oh My! New Books About Animals 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z The movie’s determination to be offbeat is established in opening and closing voice-over monologues describing the elaborate courtship rituals of bowerbirds. | 'Hello Lonesome': Among Lonelyhearts, a Meeting of Minds 2011-05-26T21:01:44Z In “The Bird Way,” Jennifer Ackerman takes a detailed look at the lives of birds — including their parenting strategies — like the bowerbird, the cuckoo and the kea. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Like a bowerbird arranging its display for potential mates, he seeks not to best his chesty, chattering rivals, but to persuade the open-minded. Survival of the Prettiest 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z In some bowerbird species the male laboriously arranges and rearranges his display, examining it from various angles and making small fixes, writes Prum, with the care of a “fussy florist.” Survival of the Prettiest 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Constructing a brightly colored nest works wonders for the bowerbird. Modern Love: Bitten in the Virtual Zoo ? Modern Love 2011-10-13T21:10:45Z It seems that some other explanation might be needed for cases such as that of the flame bowerbird. Sex chromosomes manipulate mate choice 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z So what is the evolutionary justification for the bowerbird’s ostentatious display? How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z But what about bowerbirds, which instinctively decorate elaborate constructions, or deep-learning algorithms that write articles? Readers Respond to the September 2018 Issue 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z A male bowerbird builds large huts from sticks and decorates them, sometimes even using berry juice as wall paint. The Evolution of Attraction, the Magnetic Force That Created the World and Other New Science Books 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z Horback considers male bowerbirds, which lavishly decorate their nests with mushrooms, nuts, beetles—even caterpillar feces—to be artists of the wild. Watch South Africa's Pigcasso, the Famous Painting Pig, at Work 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z Spotted bowerbirds from Australia have precise preferences for the types and colors of materials they use to build bowers, the ornamental structures they use to attract mates. Opinion | Can female preferences shape male behavior? In scientific terms, probably. 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Not only do the bowerbird’s colorful feathers and elaborate constructions lack obvious value outside courtship, but they also hinder his survival and general well-being, draining precious calories and making him much more noticeable to predators. How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z This is shown in bowerbirds: Females receive dramatic and even violent displays because those displays are stimulating and because the females can keep their autonomy intact. Why It Matters Who Females Choose to Have Sex With 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z In bowerbirds, for instance, females have used mate choice to transform male behavior in ways that have advanced their own sexual autonomy. Duck Sex and the Patriarchy 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z The male bowerbird spends most of his life trying to create a bower that will draw in his mate. Here's Why 'Birdbrain' Should Be a Compliment Birds are the most well-known flirters, and among them, peacocks, bowerbirds, and birds of paradise usually steal the show. Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink: How Do Animals Flirt? 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z When males of most bowerbird species are ready to begin courting, they set about building the structure for which they are named: an assemblage of twigs shaped into a spire, corridor or hut. How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z The proposal is that, taking a lesson from bowerbirds, human mate choice may have preceded in a similar way. Why It Matters Who Females Choose to Have Sex With 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Male bowerbirds build elaborate seduction theatres, called bowers, out of sticks, which they decorate with gathered artifacts such as feathers, fruits, and flowers. Duck Sex and the Patriarchy 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z The male satin bowerbird builds a little archway out of sticks for the female to sit in and then gathers up all sorts of blue objects because female bowerbirds love their bling. Here's Why 'Birdbrain' Should Be a Compliment The acoustic tune “Your Bower” refers to the elaborate nests of that nation’s bowerbirds, while the plugged-in “Kapunkah” takes its title from the Thai word for “thank you.” Marian McLaughlin, back with a big sound 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The bowerbird defies traditional assumptions about animal behavior. How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z The famous satin bowerbird has two parallel walls. Why It Matters Who Females Choose to Have Sex With 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z If ducks reflect our cultural present, bowerbirds may illuminate both our evolutionary origins and our social future. Duck Sex and the Patriarchy 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z My favorite story about bowerbird artistry comes from Gerald Borgia, of the University of Maryland, about a spotted bowerbird that built a bower next to the studio of a stained glass artist. Here's Why 'Birdbrain' Should Be a Compliment Male bowerbirds make and decorate what is essentially a twig sculpture—bower—to impress females. Can Animals Ever Be Artists? 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z A bowerbird with especially bright plumage might have a robust immune system, for example, while one that finds rare and distinctive trinkets might be a superb forager. How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z In bowerbirds, for example, females have used choice preferences to make males less aggressive and more amenable. Why It Matters Who Females Choose to Have Sex With 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Stunning adaptations such as termite mounds, beaver dams, and bowerbird displays have long been a staple of evolutionary studies. Does evolutionary theory need a rethink? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Using a different strategy, male bowerbirds build fancy structures to attract females, and competing males will, on the sly, try to wreck them. Touching a Nerve : Exploring the Implications of the Self as Brain, Part 1 [Excerpt] 2013-07-26T14:45:03.867Z Male bowerbirds use visual illusions that mess with perspective, just like the artist MC Escher. Can Animals Ever Be Artists? 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Yet even this remarkable exhibition is not sufficient to satisfy a female flame bowerbird. How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Female bowerbirds do all the work: They build the nest, lay the eggs, care for the young. Why It Matters Who Females Choose to Have Sex With 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Male bowerbirds labour on their bowers for months, putting twigs in place and hunting for decorations, sometimes even stealing them from other bowers. Book review: Survival of the Beautiful 2012-10-28T20:17:04.137Z Finally, bowerbird display is complex and consists of multiple interrelated traits. [Technical Comment] Comment on “Illusions Promote Mating Success in Great Bowerbirds” 2012-07-19T17:55:21.397Z Surely what is important is that there is an aesthetic appreciation of them: whether they are a beautiful mountain that has been sculpted by glaciers, a sculpture made by bowerbirds or Michelangelo’s David. Can Animals Ever Be Artists? 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z A male flame bowerbird is a creature of incandescent beauty. How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Look at the variety of structures made by bowerbirds. Summer books 2012-07-05T15:50:26.970Z The list of materials bowerbirds collect and put up on display is long. Book review: Survival of the Beautiful 2012-10-28T20:17:04.137Z Great bowerbirds, which live in Australia, get their name from the elaborate grass structures, or bowers, that the males build to woo prospective mates. Observatory: Bowerbirds Employ Craftsmanship and Illusion to Impress the Ladies 2012-01-24T00:44:35Z Biologists have long marveled at the male bowerbirds’ elaborate courtship scheme. In Bowerbird Romance, Master Illusionists Get the Girls [VIDEO] 2012-01-21T12:45:02.803Z The bowerbird’s bower, as at least one scientist has argued, is nothing less than art. How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Golden bowerbirds use “two kinds of flowers: fresh olive-green ones and dried cream-coloured blossoms”. Summer books 2012-07-05T15:50:26.970Z If bowerbirds are creating art, then chimpanzees banging two rocks together are doing science. Book review: Survival of the Beautiful 2012-10-28T20:17:04.137Z Preparing a display of bones, shells, stones and other objects is the male great bowerbird’s way of rolling out the red carpet. Observatory: Bowerbirds Employ Craftsmanship and Illusion to Impress the Ladies 2012-01-24T00:44:35Z Australia’s peculiar male bowerbird collects and assembles objects into an elaborate display as part of a courtship ritual to attract females. Passion for Possessions: Mine! 2011-08-22T04:15:15.820Z In the case of the satin bowerbird, most of the objects are in shades of blue, and can include bits of plastic or ribbon. Books: A Feat of Engineering That Doubles as a Home to Raise a Brood 2011-06-20T20:31:48Z To add further mystery, as well as the "bullying" calls of aggressive bird species, scientists found that the bowerbirds mimicked the alarm calls of threatened species and even human speech. Stressed bowerbirds become mimics 2011-05-09T08:54:01Z University researchers from Edinburgh and St Andrews found birds such as the bowerbird learned by directly listening to the calls of other species. Mimic birds 'copy other species' 2010-04-06T05:50:00Z The illusion “is evidence that bowerbirds are actually creating art,” Dr. Endler said. Observatory: Bowerbirds Employ Craftsmanship and Illusion to Impress the Ladies 2012-01-24T00:44:35Z In one is a representation of the playing place of the spotted bowerbird. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia The elaborate structures built by bowerbirds are an exception. Books: A Feat of Engineering That Doubles as a Home to Raise a Brood 2011-06-20T20:31:48Z "We suggest that bowerbirds learn these alarm sounds when stressed and then later reproduce them when in another stressful situation." Stressed bowerbirds become mimics 2011-05-09T08:54:01Z They did not usually learn their mimic behaviour from other bowerbirds. Mimic birds 'copy other species' 2010-04-06T05:50:00Z My bowerbird proved to be a new species, since described by Mr. Gould as Chlamydera cerviniventris, and the bower is exhibited in the British Museum. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 Recording male spotted bowerbirds in central Queensland, Australia, scientists found that predator calls only accounted for 20% of the birds' repertoire. Stressed bowerbirds become mimics 2011-05-09T08:54:01Z And unlike most birds, which seem to have an innate ability to build a perfect nest first time, every time, there is evidence that bowerbirds build better bowers as the years pass by. Books: A Feat of Engineering That Doubles as a Home to Raise a Brood 2011-06-20T20:31:48Z Spotted bowerbirds mimic alarm calls when stressed Stress may play a crucial role in determining whether some birds mimic the sounds of others, say researchers. Stressed bowerbirds become mimics 2011-05-09T08:54:01Z |
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