Visual effects in great bowerbird sexual displays and their implications for signal design Endler,JA, Gaburro,J and Kelley,LA 2014, Visual effects in great bowerbird sexual displays and their implications for signal design, Proceedings of The Royal Society B, vol. 281, no. 1783, pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0235. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Visual effects in great bowerbird sexual displays and their implications for signal design Author(s) Endler,JA orcid.org/0000-0002-7557-7627 Gaburro,J Kelley,LA Journal name Proceedings of The Royal Society B Volume number 281 Issue number 1783 Start page 1 End page 10 Total pages 10 Publisher Royal Society Publishing Place of publication London, Eng. Publication date 2014-05-22 ISSN 1471-2954 Keyword(s) bowerbird constraints holding attention illusions sexual display visual effects Animal Communication Animals Color Perception Courtship Female Male Mating Preference, Animal Sexual Behavior, Animal Songbirds Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Biology Ecology Evolutionary Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics Environmental Sciences & Ecology CHROMATIC ADAPTATION SATIN BOWERBIRDS MATING SUCCESS TIME-COURSE FEMALE PREFERENCES SPOTTED BOWERBIRD COLOR APPEARANCE MATE CHOICE MALE TRAITS DECORATIONS Summary It is often assumed that the primary purpose of a male's sexual display is to provide information about quality, or to strongly stimulate prospective mates, but other functions of courtship displays have been relatively neglected. Male great bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus nuchalis) construct bowers that exploit the female's predictable field of view (FOV) during courtship displays by creating forced perspective illusions, and the quality of illusion is a good predictor of mating success. Here, we present and discuss two additional components of male courtship displays that use the female's predetermined viewpoint: (i) the rapid and diverse flashing of coloured objects within her FOV and (ii) chromatic adaptation of the female's eyes that alters her perception of the colour of the displayed objects. Neither is directly related to mating success, but both are likely to increase signal efficacy, and may also be associated with attracting and holding the female's attention. Signal efficacy is constrained by trade-offs between the signal components; there are both positive and negative interactions within multicomponent signals. Important signal components may have a threshold effect on fitness rather than the often assumed linear relationship. Language eng DOI 10.1098/rspb.2014.0235 Field of Research 060399 Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970106 Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Grant ID DP110010421 Copyright notice ©2014, Royal Society Publishing Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30071588 Document type: Journal Article Collections: School of Life and Environmental Sciences Centre for Integrative Ecology Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges   Author URL Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 19 Mar 2015, 10:46:52 EST Fri, 20 Mar 2015, 14:57:47 EST Sat, 21 Mar 2015, 04:00:22 EST Sat, 21 Mar 2015, 05:09:50 EST Mon, 30 Mar 2015, 08:00:47 EST Mon, 30 Mar 2015, 08:01:54 EST Mon, 30 Mar 2015, 08:11:43 EST Mon, 24 Apr 2017, 10:57:55 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 8 times in TR Web of Science Cited 10 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 160 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 20 Mar 2015, 14:57:47 EST

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