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"]
[2:12 & following in vid] Damn it, quit stealing my moves!!
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...
* 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
http://blog.mdhs.org/costumes/the-bird-h...-millinery
Well, it seems to follow ancient tendencies.
http://www.harmendeweerd.nl/boids/