06-06-2019, 09:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-15-2019, 03:29 PM by Dekalb_Blues.)
(06-05-2019, 11:51 AM)ada Wrote: [vid: "Birds of Paradise"]
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[2:12 & following in vid] Damn it, quit stealing my moves!!
![[Image: bird-costume-cy-robin-for-adults-angry-a...en-diy.jpg]](http://learningplansondemand.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/bird-costume-cy-robin-for-adults-angry-amazon-halloween-diy.jpg)
They come runnin' just as fast as they can
'Cause every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp-dressed man
BTW, it's ethologically and psychoanthropologically interesting that the supernormal stimulus* of this bird's intraspecies-directed
mating-display also works powerfully on at least one other (supposedly much-more-evolved) species...
![[Image: bird-hat.webp]](https://psmag.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_620/MTI3NTgyNTMyMDc3MTMxMDI2/bird-hat.webp)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
But perhaps bizarrely, in that species the female adopts (or even wholly co-opts) the male display for her own
mystery-clad purposes.
https://psmag.com/social-justice/bird-ha...ment-92745
![[Image: The-Bird-Hat-Fashion-Preservation-2.jpg]](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3218660/Costumes/Images/Imported_Blog_Media/The-Bird-Hat-Fashion-Preservation-2.jpg)
http://blog.mdhs.org/costumes/the-bird-h...-millinery
Well, it seems to follow ancient tendencies.
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http://www.harmendeweerd.nl/boids/
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