Hannah Fry Instagram – Here’s why scientists put a teeny tiny hat on a bird.
(Also, I absolutely saved the best til last 🦃)
Here are the studies if you want to know more:
A Taste for the Beautiful: Latent Aesthetic Mate Preferences for White Crests in Two Species of Australian Grassfinches, by Nancy Tyler Burley and Richard. Symanski (1988).
An Eye for Detail: Selective Sexual Imprinting in Zebra Finches, by Nancy Tyler Burley (2006)
Stimuli eliciting sexual behaviour, by M.W. Schein and E.B. Hale (1965)
#birds #hats #science #hannahfry | Posted on 16/Apr/2024 20:02:20
