Avian Visual Cognition

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Visual Control of Sexual Behavior - Akins & Burns

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Figure 1.

 

Peafowl                                                                        Bulwer Pheasant

     

 

Great Argus

     

Great Egret

 

 

Lyre Bird                                                          Frigate Bird

     

 

Kori Bustard                                                                Black Sicklebill

  

 

Parotia Bird-of-Paradise                                               Wilson Bird-of-Paradise

             

 

Wire Bird-of-Paradise                          Buff Breasted Sandpiper

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Prarie Chicken                                                                Count Raggis Bird-of-Paradise

                 

 

Raggiana Bird-of-Paradise                                    Temmink Tragopan

               

 

Satin Bowerbird                                                       Vogelkop Gardner Bowerbird

        

 

Figure 2.  A male quail looking through a window at a female on the other side, after visual access to the female had been paired with copulatory opportunity.

 

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Taxonomically Preserved Heads

 

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Taxonomic Terrycloth Body

 

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Copulation with Taxonomically Preserved Head

 

Figure 4.  Mean cloacal contact movements directed toward taxidermic models in choice tests. Error bars indicate SEM. Significance levels of paired comparisons: * = P < .05.

 

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Figure 5.  The CS objects used in Experiment1 and Experiment 2. Both objects were made of blue terrycloth and filled with soft polyester fiber and consisted of a vertical section positioned in front of a horizontal mounting pad. The CS object used in Experiment 1 had a taxedermically prepared female head and partial neck mounted on top of the vertical section (a). Blue terrycloth replaced the female species typical cues on the CS object used in Experiment 2 (b).

Figure 6.  Mean time spent near the conditioned stimulus during the CS period (top panel) and during the pre-CS period (bottom panel) during 25 successive conditioning trials for experimental and control subjects in Experiment 1.

Figure 7.  Mean percentage of time experimental and control groups were observed near the stimulus compartment during Experiment 4. Data for trials without the toy dog are presented in blocks of two trials. Data for trials with the toy dog are presented in blocks of one trial; these single-trial blocks are identified by filled circles above the points.

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Figure 11.  The response profile of the sexual behavior system after conditioning. The density of the open circles (unconditioned effects) and the stars (conditioned effects) represents the degree of control of each type of stimulus over each type of response. Arrows represent conditioned modulatory influences.