Subject: [Tweeters] right-eyed birds
Date: Oct 9 08:32:52 2012
From: Devorah the ornithologist - birdologist at gmail.com


hello everyone,

i published a story today about an interesting Biology Letters study.
This study found that "beauty is in the right eye of the beholder" for
birds, meaning that a male bird cannot distinguish between polymorphic
females, nor can he distinguish between male and female birds -- if he
only sees them ONLY with his left eye! here's the link to this story:

http://gu.com/p/3apxt/tw

for those who are curious, the researchers studied Australian Gouldian
finches and they used teeny tiny temporary eyepatches to carry out
these studies.

cheers,

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