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For Some Male Pheasants, Love Really Is Blind. Their Elaborate Feathers That Impress Females Also Obstruct Their Vision
The adornments on the heads of male Lady Amherst’s and golden pheasants partially block their sight, according to new ...
Female pheasants have surprised researchers by running into corn and soybean fields — but not just for the crops. Female pheasants, Minnesota researchers have found, often abandon natural grasslands — ...
Males of two species of pheasants seem to trade attractiveness for the ability to get a good look at predators.
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract From 1992 to 1995 we used radiotelemetry to monitor winter habitat selection and survival of female ring-necked pheasants (Phasianus Colchicus ...
To prepare for a fight, a pheasant’s head cools down due to a stress response, which is of the same level no matter where the pheasant sits in the pecking order. A team of researchers set out to learn ...
Reader Brenda Neville, of Lodi, emailed me the following this morning. She wrote: " I read about the decision to close Reynold's Game Farm. While I can't argue the reasoning behind this decision, I do ...
Pheasants' heads cool rapidly as they prepare to fight -- then heat up afterwards, new research shows. Pheasants' heads cool rapidly as they prepare to fight -- then heat up afterwards, new research ...
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