What Determines Bird Beauty in Human Eyes?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F13%3A10191288" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/13:10191288 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175303713X13534238631399" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175303713X13534238631399</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2752/175303713X13534238631399" target="_blank" >10.2752/175303713X13534238631399</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

What Determines Bird Beauty in Human Eyes?

Original language description

Some authors have argued that human preferences for "beautiful" birds may skew the selection of species used to promote conservation programs. This evokes questions about the importance of color, shape, and other appearance traits of bird in affecting human preferences for birds. The aim of this study was to assess the traits affecting human preferences towards all non-passerine and five passerine bird families (n = 102), and to see whether such preferences correspond within a family or are species-specific. Using an Internet survey, we asked 200 human respondents to evaluate pictures of bird species, with two randomly chosen from each family, according to their attractiveness. The respondents were mainly from the Czech and Slovak Republics, but 67 came from other countries (the majority of which were English-speaking). An additional 100 respondents, exclusively from the Czech and Slovak Republics, evaluated the same pictures converted to silhouettes, to test the effect of shape versus

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EG - Zoology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/IAA601410803" target="_blank" >IAA601410803: Recognition of predators and other dangerous organisms by terrestrial vertebrates</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Anthrozoos

ISSN

0892-7936

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

26

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

BE - BELGIUM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

27-41

UT code for WoS article

000315659300003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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