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Animal that builds a fancy structure to attract a mate
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bowerbird
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n. (alternative spelling of bower bird English)
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n. any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females [syn: catbird ]
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Bowerbirds make up the bird family Ptilonorhynchidae . They are renowned for their unique courtship behaviour, where males build a structure and decorate it with sticks and brightly coloured objects in an attempt to attract a mate. The family has 20 species ...
Usage examples of bowerbird.
Terran species, the bowerbird, which constructs an elaborate bower fifty times his size and then decorates it with orchids and berries to attract the female.
After all this time, people were just another tool-using animal in the ecology, like beavers or bowerbirds, still little more than glorified chimps.
At most, the visitor might have mentioned humans along with beavers, bowerbirds, and army ants as examples of species with curious behavior.
Naturally, men did not evolve muscles solely to impress other men and women, in the way that male bowerbirds evolved a golden crest solely as a signal to impress other bowerbirds.
The bowerbirds of Australia and New Guinea decorate their courting grounds with everything from beetle wings to pilfered car keys.
A courtship ritual that I find appealing is practiced by the bowerbirds of New Guinea and Australia.