finches choose better mates with the right eye

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It’s said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but that’s only half-true for the Gouldian finch. Jennifer Templeton from Knox College, Illinois has found that these beautiful birds only display their famous fussiness over mates if they’re looking with their right eye. If the right is shut, and the left eye is open, the birds have more catholic tastes. As Templeton writes, “Beauty, therefore, is in the right eye of the beholder for these songbirds.”

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notro ... -right-eye/
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Would be interesting to know If the Reds behave the same.
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Interesting Article :thumbup:
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