When the team returned to the sites, they determined which decorations had been selected from the slush pile and moved to a bower, and whether it came from an urban or rural source. After recording the data, all the original decorations were returned to their bowers.
Green glass and red wire
A male great bowerbird in a rural environment displaying to a female great bowerbird. Credit: Caitlin Evans
A male great bowerbird in a rural environment displaying to a female great bowerbird. Credit: Caitlin Evans
The subsequent analysis revealed that rural bowerbirds most often used green
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