{"id":4818,"date":"2023-11-02T05:04:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T09:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/the-science-poetry-and-wonder-of-the-bowerbird-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-11-02T05:04:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T09:04:55","slug":"the-science-poetry-and-wonder-of-the-bowerbird-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/the-science-poetry-and-wonder-of-the-bowerbird-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science, Poetry, and Wonder of the Bowerbird \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For all the enchantment the color blue has cast upon humanity<\/a>, no animal has fallen under its spell more hopelessly than the bowerbird, whose very survival hinges on blue. <\/p>\n

In a small clearing on the forest floor, the male weaves twigs and branches into an elaborate bower, which he decorates exclusively with blue objects \u2014 the blue tail-feathers of parakeets, blue flowers and berries, bones and shells so bleached by sun and sea as to appear bluish-white, and, in the past century, various souvenirs from the waste and want of our own species: blue plastic caps, blue candy wrappers, blue strings. These he arranges on a straw platform in the front, where he performs his ecstatic courtship dance whenever a female enters the bower to consider him as a mate. <\/p>\n

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