{"id":1226,"date":"2013-07-23T14:30:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T02:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2013\/07\/the_male_himalayan_monal_an_ab\/"},"modified":"2013-07-23T14:30:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T02:30:17","slug":"the-male-himalayan-monal-an-ab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2013\/07\/the-male-himalayan-monal-an-ab\/","title":{"rendered":"the male himalayan monal – an absolutely gorgeous bird"},"content":{"rendered":"

 Another for the ‘gosh, isn’t this beautiful?!’ files: the Himalayan Monal (the national bird of Nepal).<\/p>\n

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 (Image via Facebook: Tambako the Jaguar; Flickr<\/span><\/span> — with Robin Subba<\/a><\/span>, Sarvesh Wangawad<\/a><\/span>,Jeriko Angue<\/a><\/span>, Roberto Delapisa<\/a><\/span>, Jonas Mgr<\/a><\/span>, Neelesh Suryavanshi<\/a><\/span>, Shashank Asai<\/a><\/span>,Sushant Bhujel<\/a><\/span> and Pabitra Lamichhane<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>)<\/p>\n

This stunning bird (Lophophorus impejanus<\/i>) is a type of pheasant, and like other pheasants the species is strongly sexually dimorphic: the males are dressed in gorgeous irisdescent plumage, while the females’ plumage <\/a>is dark brown apart for white patches on throat & rump, & the same bright blue circle round the eyes.<\/p>\n

Such marked differences between the sexes are often due to intersexual selection, with females acting as the agents of selection & choosing their mates on the basis of physical appearance, or other attributes that give information on the male’s quality. The monal is a stand-out example of the eventual outcome.<\/p>\n

Strongly dimorphic species are often polygamous – more usually polygynous, with dominant males mating with several females during the breeding season; phalaropes<\/a>, however, are polyandrous, with the more brightly-coloured female laying eggs in the nests of several males and leaving them to incubate alone. In species where there’s little dimorphism, it’s often associated with monogamous breeding patterns, & as a general rule the type of breeding pattern in a given species is linked to the species’ ecology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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 Another for the ‘gosh, isn’t this beautiful?!’ files: the Himalayan Monal (the national bird of Nepal).  (Image via Facebook: Tambako the Jaguar; Flickr — with Robin Subba, Sarvesh Wangawad,Jeriko Angue, Roberto Delapisa, Jonas Mgr, Neelesh Suryavanshi, Shashank Asai,Sushant Bhujel and Pabitra Lamichhane.) 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