Keith Horton, How to attract a female Satin Bowerbird (ANIMAL 2024)

After decorating your chosen area with blue and yellow objects, you collect sticks to make into a bower (photo 1). Then you paint the insides of your bower with a mixture of chewed plant material and saliva (2). And then, if you are lucky, the female arrives (3).

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