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The Birding Rally Challenge Peru 2012

10,000 Birds

The Peru Birding Rally Challenge is a joint initiative between PromPeru and the Inkaterra Family of hotels. Besides the birds, the teams were distracted by half a dozen primate species and rare Giant River Otters. Enter the inaugural Peru Birding Rally Challenge , the first international birding event of it’s kind in the world.

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A Strategic Arms Race Among Birds

10,000 Birds

This was the idea originally proposed to explain unbelievably huge sexual swellings in primates, to let males know who the females are. Birds (or other animals) need to be whacked on the head with some over the top obvious signal of something important or they won’t notice it. Photo of a Fairy Wren from HERE. Feeney, W. Somveille, M.,

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