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Feathers of Love🦜 - Coggle Diagram
Feathers of Love🦜
Bird Performers, Human Dancers
trade
early 1900s
threats
permitted to hunt birds
usually target older mail bird
an illegal market
oil prospecting and mining
exported 80,000
people watching and displays of the birds
Gillian Gillison
anthropologist
lived among New Guinea for a decade
capture the animal's life force makes you a warrior
David Mitchell
a conservationist
record birds display and what they eat
hopes to gather data and encourage protection of birds'
The Evolution of Color
Safe environment on the island
brightly colored feathers
attract mates
noticeable to predators
slow the birds down
Sexual selection
mating
attraction
other talent
feathers
color
environments
high-elevation cloud forests
swamps
mountains
humid coastal plains
An Amazing Performance
Males Paradise Birds in order to breed
Feathers color
The colorful the better, got more chance to get laid
Dancing
Complex, elegant and eye-catching performance
Carola 's parotia
birds
fascinating
unique of paradise
dance show
the male is attempting
he gives it his all
he pauses for dramatic effect
then commences his dance again
his neck sinks
his head moves up and down
head features bouncing
to impress a row of females that are watching him from a branch above
the one who is attracted by his performance will be his mate
lives on the island of New Guinea