Male bowerbirds create and decorate a structure called a bower which serves only to attract females for mating, and females visit and choose one among many bower owners before deciding which male to mate with. Is what they do art, and do they have an aesthetic sense? I propose operational definitions of art, judgement, and an aesthetic sense which depend upon communication theory which allow on...

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State Excise, and South Bend Police officers arrested an unde­ termined num ber o f persons for underage drinking Friday night at Bridget McGuire’s Filling Station. According to Bridget’s owner Terry Bower, approxim ately 20 police officers arrived at the bar around 11:30 p.m. and began checking the identification of bar patrons. Although South Bend police vice officers could not be reached for...

Competitive interactions between males can affect mate-choice decisions of females, so it is important to understand the factors that underlie variation in the frequency and intensity of male–male interactions. In bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchidae), two hypotheses have been proposed to explain withinand between-species variation in the rate at which males steal each other’s decorations. Males may s...

the study, the second-year females’ choice of mate showed no effect of bower treatment, but they did in year 2, when even more decorations were added. An age-biased effect is not restricted to female responses to bower decorations, but also applies to male display intensity. The more intense the male display during the second stage of courtship, the more likely were older females to visit a mal...