Charles Darwin scratched his head over the purpose of bowers, the carefully tended sex dens of the bowerbird. But few scientists had conducted studies of these ornate constructions and their earnest ...

The male bowerbird has one dazzling bachelor pad. His nest, woven around a tree and carpeted with moss, takes years to build. Each bowerbird has his own exquisite taste in decorations; some prefer ...

In many species of birds, the males are far showier than the females. Males of some species might possess colorful plumage or exaggerated physical features to catch a female’s eye, while males of ...

When Joyce Ramsey met Ward Freeman in the 1990s, he was a minimalist when it came to home decor. "He was Spartan," she said. He offers a different take on it: "I was streamlined." But a trip to ...

There’s a bowerbird building a bower in my backyard, so this year I’m on Team Bowerbird It has been a warm start to spring, and my neighbourhood has been absolutely overrun by a mob of rowdy, horny, ...

NOVA: I've heard that you have used robotic female bowerbirds. Why? Borgia: One of my students, Gail Patricelli, has just gotten a paper accepted at Nature that describes how she has used a robotic ...