Great bowerbirds create theaters with forced perspective when seen by their audience

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 1679-1684

  Endler, John A ^a,b   Endler, Lorna C ^a   Doerr, Natalie R ^b,c  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; VISION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

AVES; CHLAMYDERA NUCHALIS; CORVIDA; CORVIDAE; PTILONORHYNCHIDAE;

EID: 77957223311     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.08.033     Document Type: Article

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