Males put their bright colors and unusual ornaments to good use when they display for females ... a significant part of the male's time. Birds of paradise are found in New Guinea and surrounding ...

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Researchers recently discovered that dozens of species in the flamboyant family are biofluorescent, emitting a gleaming light ...

This juxtaposition likely enhances the entire display, which may signal to females that the performer is of good breeding quality. While females of many of the birds-of-paradise species also ...

Researchers described biofluorescence in 37 of the 45 known species of birds-of-paradise, found only in remote tropical forests and woodland habitats of Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and ...

Raggiana – Bird-of-paradise Paradisaea raggiana Order – Family: Passeriformes – Paradisaeidae Physical Description: These ...

A survey of museum specimens reveals that more than a dozen species of the birds sport biofluorescence in feathers, skin or even inside their throats.

Birds of paradise are highly sexually dimorphic ... while males use it to show off. Take the mating display of the Western parotia (Parotia sefilata). The male will clear an area on the forest ...

Greater bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea apoda) male, native to southwest New Guinea and Aru Islands, ... [+] Indonesia. (Photo by: Philippe Clément/Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...