Sentence examples for reject decorations from inspiring English sources
These factors suggest that honest sexual signaling occurs because males vary in the ability to acquire and retain decorations, not because low-quality males reject decorations they acquired cost-free.
Because bower decorations are external to the birds, males can rapidly change the size of their mating signals, and in Spotted Bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus maculatus), low-quality males reject decorations added to their bowers, most likely to prevent rivals from destroying their bowers completely (Madden 2002).
If the numbers of decorations at bowers are socially controlled, then males should reject most decorations added to their bowers, and there should be a positive correlation between the numbers of decorations at bowers before and after supplementation.
Indeed, males sometimes inherit bowers upon the death of the original owners, and they do not reject the decorations that are already present, even when they experience high levels of bower destruction and decoration theft (N.R. Doerr, unpublished data).
Great bowerbirds reject yellow decorations added to their bowers (Veselovsky 1978; Endler and Day 2006).
This could produce a positive correlation between the numbers of berries naturally present and the numbers males accepted during supplementation even if males did not reject any decorations.
Calvinists rejected ornamentation in places of worship, with no need for elaborate buildings divided up by ritual, resulting in the widespread destruction of Medieval church furnishings, ornaments and decoration.
First, I supplemented males with decorations to determine whether they rejected supplemental decorations.
In two populations, I supplemented males with decorations to determine whether they (a) rejected supplemental decorations and (b) experienced increased bower destruction from rivals.
Nonetheless, male spotted bowerbirds did reject many of the decorations placed on their bowers and even when offered large numbers of berries at low cost chose not to take them (Madden 2002), so the relevance of the social control hypothesis to bowerbirds requires further research.
