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“Peacocks and Picathartes: Reflections on Africa’s Birdlife”

10,000 Birds

And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. The rest of the 216 pages long book is devoted to various African bird families and half a dozen individual species. He has authored several other books and many articles, largely on natural history.

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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. Science (New York, N.Y.), 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. Somveille, M., Mulder, R.

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