When you hear beautiful birdsong, such as the warbling of the Australasian magpie, you might believe it's a sign of intense competition for territory or showing off to attract a mate.
Plants & Animals
Jan 17, 2023
0
13
A team of researchers at the University of Western Australia, working with a colleague from the University of Exeter, has found that as female southern pied babblers grow older, they produce more offspring—even as they ...
In 1868, the naturalist Charles Darwin wrote that differences in plumage coloration between male and female birds of the same species were likely the result of sexual selection: Female birds—he used the peahen and peacock ...
Evolution
Oct 11, 2022
0
9
For two million years African cuckoo finches have been tricking other birds into raising their young by mimicking the colour of their eggs, but new research suggests the tables may be turning in this evolutionary scam.
Plants & Animals
Apr 16, 2022
0
35
While human males tend to suffer more than females from infectious diseases like COVID-19 or flu, for birds it's the males that appear to have stronger immune systems, suggests a new study led by the University of Bath.
Plants & Animals
Feb 21, 2022
0
208
A scientific explanation for those battles over the air conditioning remote control: Researchers at Tel Aviv University's School of Zoology offer a new, evolutionary explanation for the familiar scenario in which women bring ...
Evolution
Oct 7, 2021
0
319
Fighting among social animals is common as they compete for the resources they need to survive and reproduce. A winner and a loser will inevitably result from these interactions, but do these challenges also leave an unseen, ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 22, 2021
0
556
Scientists from the University of Sheffield have found that although male and female birds have an almost identical set of genes, they function differently in each sex through a mechanism called alternative splicing.
Plants & Animals
Sep 25, 2020
1
360
Americans often idealize scientists as unbiased, objective observers. But scientists are affected by conscious and unconscious biases, just as people in other fields are. Studies of birds' vocal behavior clearly show how ...
Social Sciences
Sep 11, 2020
0
234
Plucky, beautiful and declining in numbers at about a 2% annual rate, the rufous hummingbird makes its long annual migration in different timing and route patterns based the birds' age and sex, new research by Oregon State ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 28, 2020
0
12
