Component Quote by Peter R. Grant Download Open image “Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.” — Peter R. Grant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Component Constitute Courtship Features Major Romance Signals
Animals use a broad range of strategies to advertise themselves in the mating market. In some instances, visual cues highlight a morphological feature -… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity. — Bill Parcells Copy Share Image
“Males of all species are made for wooing females, and females typically choose among their suitors. If you take a closer look, you can… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are… — Bibhu Mohapatra Copy Share Image
“Impressing the ladies is an arduous task ', as the narrator is always saying on Animal Planet...'Perhaps no creature has a more elaborate courtship… — James Lever Copy Share Image
On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent… — David Lack Copy Share Image
“You shall be distinguished overseas by your colourful plumage, graceful flight and beautiful songs. There are so many lovely features that will make you… — J. Nozipo Maraire Copy Share Image
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted. — Peter R. Grant Copy Share Image
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools. — Peter R. Grant Copy Share Image
Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals. — Peter R. Grant Copy Share Image
To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in… — Peter R. Grant Copy Share Image
The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted. — Peter R. Grant Copy Share Image
The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced… — Peter R. Grant Copy Share Image
The process of speciation is completed with the cessation of genetic exchange. — Peter R. Grant Copy Share Image
The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise. — Peter R. Grant Copy Share Image
Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties. — Peter R. Grant Copy Share Image
We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor. — Peter R. Grant Copy Share Image
Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
We don't really know where human sexual orientations come from yet. What we do know is that the evidence we have that sexual orientation… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Integration is the most important asset Europe has, and the key component to European integration is the euro. — Anibal Cavaco Silva Copy Share Image
Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
A vocal producer is very important, and it's a very important component of an overall successful and good-sounding record. — Harvey Mason, Jr Copy Share Image
I would love to speak with First Lady Michelle Obama about the addictive component of obesity. — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash… — Louis V. Gerstner, Jr Copy Share Image
