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Don Juan
Confidence can be a contagious thing, and while changing one's hairstyle and wardrobe and/or pretending to be a confident alpha male won't miraculously transform an "AFC" into a Don Juan, having even just a little success with the ladies can be a confidence builder for most guys. And confidence breeds more confidence.
We all know that merely being perceived as "attractive" or "desirable" by one or two females can catapult a guy into being viewed as "desirable" by many females. And according to a new study, it works that way for birds too. Via Yahoo News: Marked-up birds become sexier, exude testosterone:
"A little strategically placed makeup quickly turns the wimpiest of male barn swallows into chick magnets, amping up their testosterone and even trimming their weight, new research shows.
It's a "clothes make the man" lesson that — with some caveats — also applies to human males, researchers say.
Using a $5.99 marker, scientists darkened the rust-colored breast feathers of male New Jersey barn swallows, turning lighter birds to the level of those naturally darkest.
They had already found, in a test three years ago, that the marked-up males were more attractive to females and mated more often.
This time they found out that the more attractive appearance, at least in the bird world, triggered changes to the animals' body chemistry, increasing testosterone."
More:
"Other females might be looking at them as being a little more sexy, and the birds might be feeling better about themselves in response to that," said study co-author Kevin McGraw, an evolutionary biology professor at Arizona State University."
We all know that merely being perceived as "attractive" or "desirable" by one or two females can catapult a guy into being viewed as "desirable" by many females. And according to a new study, it works that way for birds too. Via Yahoo News: Marked-up birds become sexier, exude testosterone:
"A little strategically placed makeup quickly turns the wimpiest of male barn swallows into chick magnets, amping up their testosterone and even trimming their weight, new research shows.
It's a "clothes make the man" lesson that — with some caveats — also applies to human males, researchers say.
Using a $5.99 marker, scientists darkened the rust-colored breast feathers of male New Jersey barn swallows, turning lighter birds to the level of those naturally darkest.
They had already found, in a test three years ago, that the marked-up males were more attractive to females and mated more often.
This time they found out that the more attractive appearance, at least in the bird world, triggered changes to the animals' body chemistry, increasing testosterone."
More:
"Other females might be looking at them as being a little more sexy, and the birds might be feeling better about themselves in response to that," said study co-author Kevin McGraw, an evolutionary biology professor at Arizona State University."
