Male great bowerbirds accumulate decorations to reduce the annual costs of signal production

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1477-1482

  Doerr, Natalie R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extended phenotype; Great bowerbird; Honest signal; Nonbodily ornament; Ptilonorhynchus nuchalis

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; COURTSHIP; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MALE; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNAL;

ANIMALIA; CHLAMYDERA NUCHALIS; PTILONORHYNCHUS;

EID: 84861857305     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.03.021     Document Type: Article

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