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Bird fruit preferences match the frequency of fruit colours in tropical Asia

While many factors explain the colour of fleshy fruits, it is thought that black and red fruits are common in part because frugivorous birds prefer these colours. We examined this still controversial hypothesis at a tropical Asian field site, using artificial fruits, fresh fruits, four wild-caught r...

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Autores principales: Duan, Qiong, Goodale, Eben, Quan, Rui-chang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4102077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25033283
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep05627