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Richstine's Lawn Ornaments in New Oxford, Pa., runs a Web site, lawnornaments.com, and ships large ornaments all over the country.
If quality was unrelated to size and symmetry we would expect the cost of ornamentation to create developmental stress for their owners leading to increased asymmetry in large ornaments.
Folstad and Karter (1992) proposed the Immunocompetence Handicap Hypothesis (IHH) whereby testosterone-dependent ornaments reliably signal health and parasite resistance because testosterone enhances ornamentation but impairs immune function, so only individuals of high genetic quality can endure the cost of displaying large ornaments.
This paradox can be resolved however, with the observation that preferred males with large ornaments also have larger testes and accessory glands [Rogers et al. in prep.; Cotton & Pomiankowski unpublished].
Males develop large ornaments when they enter water for breeding, manifested as a low, straight edged crest which extends dorsally, a thread-like filament projecting from the end of the tail and conspicuous webbing between the toes of the hind feet [ 33].
Light strands with large light bulbs mixed with bright small and large ornaments will give your tree a contemporary, edgy feel.
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There is evidence for this within and across bird species where larger ornaments, such as tails, tend to be more symmetrical than smaller ornaments [13].
And don't be afraid to glue several balls together to create larger ornaments, creatures or objects.
The head sports large ear ornaments in the form of pegs.
If symmetry and masculinity honestly indicate the quality of individuals, high quality individuals should develop large sexual ornaments which have little asymmetry.
Or a large porcelain ornament frog complete with sticky yellow frogspawn?
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