In many species of birds, the males are far showier than the females. Males of some species might possess colorful plumage or exaggerated physical features to catch a female’s eye, while males of ...

NOVA: I've heard that you have used robotic female bowerbirds. Why? Borgia: One of my students, Gail Patricelli, has just gotten a paper accepted at Nature that describes how she has used a robotic ...

The central figure at that time was the remarkable king parrot, a silent and starkly superb frequent visitor to our place. But there is one slightly more appealing quiet visitor to our garden that ...

Dancing around an intricate bower in a backyard in Canberra's south is a bird that's determined to woo his female counterparts. He has rich satin blue plumage, a pale blue and white bill and striking ...

Male bowerbirds, like the males of so many species, lure mates with displays of wealth. The male collects up to 5,000 stones, bones, shells, and man-made objects to build an elaborate court where he ...

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland (CNN) --The female bowerbirds of Australia and New Guinea are pretty particular about their mates; they have to combine the hot, sensual moves of a Ricky Martin, with the ...

Gail Patricelli wasn’t so sure that courtship is really as one-sided as the ill-fated show “Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?” where contestants strutted, and a watcher of the other sex selected. So, ...

The sexual success of the male spotted bowerbird depends on his gardening skills. In his patch of forest, where he displays to mates, he cultivates a small fruiting shrub called the ‘bush tomato’, ...

(Phys.org) —A trio of researchers in Australia has found that there is more to bowerbird bowers and colored objects used by the males than has been previously thought. In their paper published in ...

Charles Darwin scratched his head over the purpose of bowers, the carefully tended sex dens of the bowerbird. But few scientists had conducted studies of these ornate constructions and their earnest ...