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Plumage Quotes by Peter R. Grant
- Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.
- The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.
More Plumage Quotes
- He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination.… — Thomas Paine
- I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared vivacious and… — Christopher Cokinos
- I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow… — W G Sebald
- Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes… — Barbara Pym
- In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter… — Jonathan Clements
- Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage. — Aeschylus
- Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only… — Jean Anouilh
- Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings?… — Alexander Pope
- A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has… — Ogden Nash
- I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the… — Christian Louboutin