Multiple male traits interact: Attractive bower decorations facilitate attractive behavioural displays in satin bowerbirds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1531, 2003, Pages 2389-2395

  Patricelli, Gail L ^a,b   Uy, J Albert C ^a,c   Borgia, Gerald ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural traits; Courtship; Female signals; Multiple traits; Satin bowerbirds; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; PASSERINE; SEXUAL SELECTION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTILONORHYNCHUS VIOLACEUS; SEXUAL SELECTION; STARTLE REFLEX;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERIFORMES; PTILONORHYNCHIDAE; PTILONORHYNCHUS VIOLACEUS;

EID: 0345304367     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2530     Document Type: Article

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