Study finds that birds-of-paradise are biofluorescent, suggesting that this "hidden" phenomenon provides enhanced signaling for hierarchy and courtship.
Birds-of-paradise are even colorful in the dark, with feathers and body parts that glow a brilliant yellow-green under ...
The museum has the only verified nest of a greater bird of paradise in a scientific collection—and it sits outside Russell’s office. “Nests are extraordinary remnants of behavior,” Russell ...
Interestingly, birds remain woefully understudied when it comes to the optical extras. Until now, no one had looked for the ...
Scientists find that 82 percent of birds-of-paradise species show biofluorescence, often on their feathers, throat or inner ...
Birds-of-paradise number around 45 species and typically have elaborate feathers, colors, and mating displays. Birds also ...
New research by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln reports, for the ...
New research reports, for the first time, the widespread occurrence of biofluorescence in birds-of-paradise. The study, based on specimens collected since the 1800s, finds biofluorescence in 37 of the ...