The male peacock is well known for its courtship displays, during which it fans its colourful tail feathers to attract a mate. But not all birds are so spectacular, and males of other species employ ...

Charles Darwin scratched his head over the purpose of bowers, the carefully tended sex dens of the bowerbird. But few scientists had conducted studies of these ornate constructions and their earnest ...

In many species of birds, the males are far showier than the females. Males of some species might possess colorful plumage or exaggerated physical features to catch a female’s eye, while males of ...

WHEN IT COMES to attracting females, male bowerbirds have a number of tricks up their sleeve. The most well-known is their intricately built nest (or bower), strewn with an array of brightly coloured ...

Gail Patricelli wasn’t so sure that courtship is really as one-sided as the ill-fated show “Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?” where contestants strutted, and a watcher of the other sex selected. So, ...

“This is one of those dreaded posts that you hate to see,” Bowerbird Bakeshop owner Earl Vallery posted on Instagram on Oct. 31. “I’m here to let you know that Bowerbird will be closing.” Vallery, who ...

NOVA: I've heard that you have used robotic female bowerbirds. Why? Borgia: One of my students, Gail Patricelli, has just gotten a paper accepted at Nature that describes how she has used a robotic ...