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  The Language of Color

  Hello Everyone,
  
  This is an incredible exhibit! I found some links to share Harvard Museum of Natural History exhibit via video for a tour of its new exhibition, The Language of Color, introduced by the museum’s executive director, Elisabeth Werby, and conducted by curator Hopi Hoekstra.
  
  Then read more about the role of color in the lives of animals and plants in “Animals Speak Color,” Harvard Magazine’s November-December 2008 cover article.
  
  Very inspiring!
  
  Links:
  http://harvardmagazine.com/extras/a-look-at-the-language-of-...
  http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/11/animals-speak-color.html
  
  Cheers,
  Sandy Riedel
  
  • 30 Mar 2009, 10:34 pm
  Sandy Riedel wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > This is an incredible exhibit! I found some links to share Harvard > Museum of Natural History exhibit via video for a tour of its new > exhibition, The Language of Color, introduced by the museum’s > executive director, Elisabeth Werby, and conducted by curator Hopi > Hoekstra. > > Then read more about the role of color in the lives of animals and > plants in “Animals Speak Color,” Harvard Magazine’s November-December > 2008 cover article. > > Very inspiring! > > Links: > http://harvardmagazine.com/extras/a-look-at-the-language-of-color > http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/11/animals-speak-color.html > > Cheers, > Sandy Riedel
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  Re:Why love birds 'dance' to the Sun

  The large birds lift and point their bottoms towards the Sun, say scientists, making their bright white tail feathers more conspicuous.The behaviour makes them more visible to females, say the scientists.The Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology study suggests the birds actively use the Sun in their displays.
  
  Pedro Olea, a scientist from the IE University School of Biology in Santa Cruz, Spain, led the study.He and his colleagues observed the birds on mating grounds called leks."We recorded the orientation of more than 400 male displays in relation to the [position of the] Sun, and to females, at several leks in the plains of north western Spain," he explained.
  
  At these sites, up to 200 males gathered to perform their courtship displays - lifting their tails and rotating their wings in order to display their white body feathers.The researchers found that the male birds tended to direct their tail feathers towards the Sun, especially in the morning.
  
  "The displays were more directed towards the Sun when it was most visible," the researchers wrote in their article.Dr Tommaso Pizzari, an ornithologist from Oxford University, who was not involved in this study, said the findings were "very interesting".
  
  Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8510760.stm
  
  • 15 Feb 2010, 9:32 pm
  Sandy Riedel wrote: > The large birds lift and point their bottoms towards the Sun, say > scientists, making their bright white tail feathers more > conspicuous.The behaviour makes them more visible to females, say the > scientists.The Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology study suggests the > birds actively use the Sun in their displays. > > Pedro Olea, a scientist from the IE University School of Biology in > Santa Cruz, Spain, led the study.He and his colleagues observed the > birds on mating grounds called leks."We recorded the orientation of > more than 400 male displays in relation to the [position of the] Sun, > and to females, at several leks in the plains of north western > Spain," he explained. > > At these sites, up to 200 males gathered to perform their courtship > displays - lifting their tails and rotating their wings in order to > display their white body feathers.The researchers found that the male > birds tended to direct their tail feathers towards the Sun, > especially in the morning. > > "The displays were more directed towards the Sun when it was most > visible," the researchers wrote in their article.Dr Tommaso Pizzari, > an ornithologist from Oxford University, who was not involved in this > study, said the findings were "very interesting". > > Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8510760.stm