fruit-eating

Updated: June 6, 2025

But fruit-eating and flower-feeding creatures, like butterflies and humming-birds seeking their food ever among the bright berries and brilliant flowers, almost invariably acquire in the long run an æsthetic taste for pure and varied colouring, and by the aid of sexual selection this taste stereotypes itself at last in their own wings and plumage.

Grant Allen - Science in Arcady