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- n. Plural form of bowerbird.
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Examples
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The most notable characteristic of bowerbirds is the extraordinarily complex behaviour of males, which is to build a bower to attract mates.
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It was sort of this personal project, and we had just found out about the actual birds called bowerbirds, who reside on the other side of the Earth from us in Australia.
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The bowerbirds of Australia and New Guinea are the only animals besides humans that spontaneously make works of art.
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From the videos I've seen about the bowerbirds, the like something blue.
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Like bowerbirds (who build creative nests to attract mates), you gotta be creative!
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This is a place of frogs, bowerbirds, cockatoos and parrots, where 120 pound flightless birds called cassowaries are king and wild pigs roam free.
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As a result, the scientists believe great bowerbirds are the first known non-human animals that create scenes with altered visual perspectives for viewing by other individuals.
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Great bowerbirds are known for their dramatic mating displays and elaborate constructions.
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They dig tunnels, garden their lawns, take up flower arranging, and live like northern bowerbirds.
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It ranges from the rudimentary protective instinct of the lobster that prevents it from eating its own claws, all the way up to the "magnificent fictions" of self that humans spin out of their cumulative experience, like bowerbirds assembling nests from a melange of found objects.
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