Abstract
which include the most elabo rately decorated structures erected by any animal other than Homo sapiens. Darwin discussed both of these families because they furnish extreme ex amples of sexual selection. However, BOPs and BBs also pose other ques tions that have only recently attracted attention. BOPs provide a little-studied example of adaptive radiation in bills and diets which rivals that of Darwin's finches. Because of this range of diets, as well as of social systems, BOPs and BBs interest sociobiologists concerned with ecological determinants of social systems. Both families provide rich data for studying speciation. Male BBs decorating their bowers with objects of different colors are beginning to interest animal behaviorists.
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