Songbird Courtship Influenced by Who's in the Audience (5 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Songbird Courtship Influenced by Who's in the Audience (5 of 8)

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Female blue-capped cordon-bleu. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 3rd, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. Ota at Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Couples showing off: Audience promotes both male and female multimodal courtship display in a songbird."

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Nao Ota

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