In Mumbai, right next to my family's apartment, Black kites were
using mostly-white Tee shirts as well as blue plastic and other found
clothing-scraps. I particularly noticed the Tee shirts when we
visited in 2008, but I couldn't read the T-shirt logos to see what
brand they preferred(!).
-Nari Mistry
At 8:37 AM -0500 1/21/11, Meena Haribal wrote:
Chris et al,
In India, at least those Black Kites (Milvus migrans govinda) that
nested near my house or my office in Mumbai, preferred golden
materials, especially those of fire cracker wrappers. And crows
(Corvus splendens) preferred metal coat (ok clothes) hangers to
sticks.
I guess where these guys studied the Black Kites did not have exotic
colors available.
I wonder what would happen if they were given different choice of
colors would they show a gradient in their fitness.
Meena
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