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Royal Flycatcher in Full Crest Display - Costa Rica (Original Post)
Donkees
Jul 2024
OP
im too sexy for my shirt. id love to know how the speicies of birds evolved that?!?!
AllaN01Bear
Jul 2024
#1
''Feather head crests have been found in fossils of some dinosaurs and early birds''
Donkees
Jul 16
#2
very informative . thanks the birds in the black and white photo still look colourful .
AllaN01Bear
Jul 16
#3
AllaN01Bear
(22,645 posts)1. im too sexy for my shirt. id love to know how the speicies of birds evolved that?!?!
Donkees
(32,302 posts)2. ''Feather head crests have been found in fossils of some dinosaurs and early birds''
.. Feather head crests have been found in fossils of some dinosaurs and early birds as well as a wide variety of living species of birds. While feather crests have usually been studied for their roles as possible visual signals, recent behavioral studies of two auklet species have shown that their erect head crest feathers can play a mechanosensory role during tactile navigation similar to that of mammalian whiskers and arthropod antennae. These findings suggest that feather crests in other birds also might play a previously unrecognized mechanosensory functional role. ...
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Artificial-white-crest-worn-by-male-long-tailed-finch-left-and-male-zebra-finch_fig2_23276464
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Artificial-white-crest-worn-by-male-long-tailed-finch-left-and-male-zebra-finch_fig2_23276464
"A Taste for the Beautiful" Latent Aesthetic Mate Preferences ...
''Darwin first hypothesized that bright colors and elaborate ornamentation of male animals evolved in response to the "aesthetic" mate preferences of females.''
Artificial white crest worn by male long-tailed finch ( left ) and male zebra finch ( right ) during mate choice trials. Photo credit: Kerry Clayman.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Artificial-white-crest-worn-by-male-long-tailed-finch-left-and-male-zebra-finch_fig2_23276464
''Darwin first hypothesized that bright colors and elaborate ornamentation of male animals evolved in response to the "aesthetic" mate preferences of females.''
Artificial white crest worn by male long-tailed finch ( left ) and male zebra finch ( right ) during mate choice trials. Photo credit: Kerry Clayman.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Artificial-white-crest-worn-by-male-long-tailed-finch-left-and-male-zebra-finch_fig2_23276464
AllaN01Bear
(22,645 posts)3. very informative . thanks the birds in the black and white photo still look colourful .
Donkees
(32,302 posts)4. Here's a crested dinosaur ancestor :)
AllaN01Bear
(22,645 posts)5. thanks .
wouldnt want to meet that one in person . eeeeeek!!!!.