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Sexual selection has thus been the driving force in the evolution of birds of paradise.Over millons of years , they have slowly undergone changes in their colors , feathers and other talents.
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Many male birds perform dance for attract females.This dancing birds of paradise that live on the island of New Guinea.
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Keeping the female's attention is not easy, thus he pauses for dramatic effect and he start his dance again.He jumps and shakes his feathers till his performance finally attracts the attention of one of the females.
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In the jungle of New Guinea is nature's absurd theater, the special mating game of the birds of paradise.To attact females, males' feathers resemble costumes worthy of the stage.The yellows , bright reds,bules are sharply against the green of the forest
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There are many beautiful feathers, each species has its own type of display behavior .Some birds dance on the ground in areas and others perform high in the trees.
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The male red bird of paradise shows off his red and yellow feathers in a display called a " butterfly dance" He spreads and moves his wings intensely, like a giant butterfly.Also they have "ballerina dance" these include one in which he spreeds out his feathers like a dress.
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Of Today's 45 brightly colored birds of paradise species, most live only on New Guinea.These birds of paradise invite us to solve a mystery of nature.
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"Life here is pretty comfortable for birds of paradise.The island's unique environment has allowed them to go to extremes unheard of elsewhere " says biologist Ed Scholes.Fruit and insects are abundant all year round,and predators are few.
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The diversity of New Guinea's birds also springs from its varied environments from coastal plains to cloud forests,from swamps to mountains rising as high as 5,000 metres .The landscape has many physical barriers that isolate animal populations, allowing them to develop into distinct species.
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"Locals will tell you they went into the forest and copied their rituals from the birds", says anthropologist Gillian Gillison." By wearing the feathers", Gillison says," ... you capture the animal's life force".
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At the peak of the trade in the early 1900s, 80,000 skins a year were exported from New Guinea for European ladies' hats.Nowadays, few birds die for fashion or for traditional costumes.
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Logging,oil prospecting , and mining also present dangers to New Guinea's forest. Meanwhile, human populations continue to increase.
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David Mitchell, a conservationist ,is relying on the help of local villagers to record where the birds display and what they eat." I had come to cut down some trees and plant yam vines ," says Ambrose Joseph, one of Mitchell's farmers.
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