Such displays can last for hours, and in many species they consume a significant part of the male's time. Birds of paradise are found in New Guinea and surrounding islands. The manucodes and ...

And while they may look like the kind of high-maintenance houseplant that requires special treatment, bird-of-paradise plants are surprisingly easy to care for. Whether planted outdoors or in ...

Biofluorescence is widespread in birds-of-paradise, a group of tropical birds famous for their spectacular courtship dances.

Birds-of-paradise (Aves: Paradisaeidae), a family of passerine birds that includes more than 40 species, have an elaborate courtship display. The male dances frenetically, showing off brightly colored ...

Many Heliconia flowers resemble the striking plumage of birds-of-paradise. Others evoke lobster claws or toucan beaks. Gardeners have cultivated Heliconia species for centuries as striking ...

Martin and her colleagues tested all 45 species, using specimens from the American Museum of Natural History, and found biofluorescence in each of the 37 core birds-of-paradise. This suggests that ...

There are 45 different species of birds-of-paradise, and I was able to analyze all of the species... and of those, 37 of them are biofluorescent, so a huge majority of them are.” The team ...

They have been cataloguing the courtship displays of every species of this stunning family of birds. But recently they noticed something new. When female birds of paradise watch males dance ...

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