(Picture Of the male satin bowerbird on top,is from a reproduction of a photo by Norman Chaffer in, Juergen Nicolai: Vogelleben Stuttgart 1973 and the one at the bottom, depicting a collection of a male satin bowerbird is from a photo by Michael K.Morcombe: ibid.)
Trust a reductionist to find a reason for the above phenomenon, something like...well the bowerbirds affinity for the blue has a selective advantage because it may enhance the ability to locate water in an arid biotope or still more far fetched, it is a vestigial behavioural trait left from the times as their ancestors lived near coastal waters. Under no circumstances has the courted satin bowerbird lady (who wears a much drabber plumage ) any sense of harmony, which is reserved for humans and that too for the civilized ones only. And of course she can not feel pleasure, like humans do, by observing the colors and collection or the gestalt of the exhibits nor does she choose her mate just because she falls in love with the artist! That type of thinking is taboo because it is associated in freudian sense with words like anthromorphism or animism, characteristic of prelogical "natives" or children.
More about Bowerbird Art at PBS. Nova.
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