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About birds’ warning colors
Color as the sex selection
Color as the warning color
Role to act mutually
Color as the sex selection
I will raise what a rare creature wants to see as a reason to go to visit the zoo to the first. The beautiful creature of the color such as a peacock and the pheasant attracts the interest of people in particular in that. But it is only a male to do a beautiful figure in the case of a peacock and a pheasant, and the female figure is relatively quiet. Though went to watch a beautiful peacock, there was only the bird which was brown in the corner; we had a lot of experiences like that. Then Why do we leave the difference is noticeable only by gender in this? Pheasants, a waterfowl, birds of paradise are very clear kinds of sexual dimorphism, and only a male is beautiful, and the female is a quiet color. Generally, it is thought that the male beauty evolved by the picking and choosing due to the female with such a kind. The selection Between the sexes or the sex selection means this. Above all, as for the waterfowl, a male color changes vividly only in early breeding season.
Color as the warning color
Then would the birds that a color was bright evolve by the sex selection of the means lever? An example of the beautiful bird of the same color will include harpoon shrikes. Harpoon shrikes let a predator result in death with the strong toxicity. In addition, the appearance of harpoon shrikes resembles closely each other. From this, it may be said that relations of the Mullerian mimicry makes up between harpoon shrikes. In other words the bright color of harpoon shrikes is colored warning to tell it about own being dangerous elsewhere not a thing by the sex selection. The color of harpoon shrikes is two kinds of black and red and the bitter orange whereas there are many things that the color of the peacock was based on blue. This is colored representative warning to be common to poison frog or a firefly, and there is the creature which is poisonousness of the red and black or unpalatableness innumerably in the world. Creatures of this that is the red and black are not particular about taxon, and it may be said that we are in a relation of the Mullerian mimicry as far as it is considerably wide. However, as for the relationship, there does not seem to be a meaning even if we make appearance of the red and black because the bird of the predator side dies when it ate if it is a creature having a deadly poison like a harpoon shrike. However, it becomes clear in the study using the North American bird to tend to avoid some birds with a color of the red and black of the game on "an instinct mark". In other words, can it not be said that the color to be called black and red hides the essential thing which predators avoid not a familiar problem to say that it does not get used in the bottom?
Role to act mutually
Of course, about the male beauty of the sexual bird that the sexual dimorphism developed, there will be many things which I can explain by the sex selection. However, it is thought that there are many scenes where natural selection acts on as a warning color for the predator. We supplemented it rather than the thing which contradicted it each other, and do the sex selection and natural selection never evolved male beauty? The male of the bird must sing even at the place that is outstanding to a female in the breeding season, but it involves the risk of their own predators to prey dressed at the same time. It may be said that the mimesis signals are easy to rather evolve to offset the risk. It may be interesting to think that replace about the male color of the bird, the one which I change some viewpoints about "the beauty" of the sexual bird without the sexual dimorphism with male and female in modern society.