Visual effects in great bowerbird sexual displays and their implications for signal design

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1783, 2014, Pages

  Endler, John A ^a,b   Gaburro, Julie ^a   Kelley, Laura A ^a,c  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bowerbird; Constraints; Holding attention; Illusions; Sexual display; Visual effects

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COURTSHIP; MATING SUCCESS; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNALING;

ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

ANIMALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSIOLOGY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84902676826     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0235     Document Type: Article

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