Bower Birds The males of these species found in Australia and New Guinea build elaborate bowers decorated with, among other things, pebbles, flowers, sea shells, beer-bottle tops, car keys and ...

Keith Horton (Australia) watches from the nearby shrubbery as a female satin bowerbird visits a male’s bower to inspect ... He combined two images to get both birds in focus. Bowerbirds prefer to ...

Some philosophers believe that creating art requires intention; for example, a sculptor will mold clay with the intention of having it look like Abraham Lincoln. And nonhuman animals, they’ll argue, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In the forests of eastern Australia, satin bowerbirds create ... All around the bower the bird scatters small objects – shells, pieces of plastic, flower petals – which ...