Male bowerbirds attract females by building bowers and decorating them with disparate, often highly coloured objects. Danielle Clode's book on Australian natural history, written after a stint as scientific interpreter at Museum Victoria in Melbourne, takes a similar approach to attracting readers. She has teased out stories from the museum, founded in 1856 and one of Australia's oldest, by exploring its collections and talking to curators.
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