NOVA: I've heard that you have used robotic female bowerbirds. Why? Borgia: One of my students, Gail Patricelli, has just gotten a paper accepted at Nature that describes how she has used a robotic ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: And still on robots, bigger ones this time, can you imagine anything more cruel than ...

The central figure at that time was the remarkable king parrot, a silent and starkly superb frequent visitor to our place. But there is one slightly more appealing quiet visitor to our garden that ...

Gail Patricelli wasn’t so sure that courtship is really as one-sided as the ill-fated show “Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?” where contestants strutted, and a watcher of the other sex selected. So, ...

Keith Horton (Australia) watches from the nearby shrubbery as a female satin bowerbird visits a male’s bower to inspect its work. Keith was visiting the busy university campus of Australia’s ...

When looking for sex partners, younger females prefer males who decorate their place with a little extra blue, be it plastic or feathers. They also prefer males who tone down the intensity of their ...

NOVA: Do you think there are new bowerbird species left to discover? Borgia: It's possible. I think what may happen is that existing species may be split. Certainly with the Vogelkop bowerbirds that ...