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Mate choice and visual illusions in great bowerbirds

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Sexual selection studies normally measure signal strengths, but signal components and sensory processing may interact to create misleading or attention-capturing illusions.  Male great bowerbirds construct and maintain an extended phenotype that creates a forced perspective visual illusion.  I present evidence that the forced perspective created by males facilitates male mating success, whereby males that produce better visual illusions gain more mates than rival males.  I also discuss the possibility that forced perspective may interact with other aspects of male displays, and discuss the wider implications of these findings.

This talk is part of the Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series series.

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