Share the road....Quail with bunny friend los liones 1319
"Like peacock tails and a lot of other goofy feathers, quail crests (or plumes), which are actually made of six separate feathers, are apparently for impressing potential mates.
Jennifer Calkins and Nancy Burley caught a bunch of Gambel's Quail, one of the three species with a crest. They clipped the crest feathers off some of the quail and stuck them on others with superglue to make extra-long crests. Then they put a female quail in a cage with two males, one normal one, and one with a "crest extension," and timed how long the female spent hanging out with each male. Each time they repeated the experiment with a different female quail, she spent longer hanging out with the male with the crest extension than the normal one. Except in one case where the extra feathers fell off." My quail is a California Quail.
Share the road....Quail with bunny friend los liones 1319
"Like peacock tails and a lot of other goofy feathers, quail crests (or plumes), which are actually made of six separate feathers, are apparently for impressing potential mates.
Jennifer Calkins and Nancy Burley caught a bunch of Gambel's Quail, one of the three species with a crest. They clipped the crest feathers off some of the quail and stuck them on others with superglue to make extra-long crests. Then they put a female quail in a cage with two males, one normal one, and one with a "crest extension," and timed how long the female spent hanging out with each male. Each time they repeated the experiment with a different female quail, she spent longer hanging out with the male with the crest extension than the normal one. Except in one case where the extra feathers fell off." My quail is a California Quail.