Peafowl Crest Feather Biomechanics Data for Social Display Analysis

Roslyn Dakin provides data and scripts on peafowl crest feather vibration and mechanical properties. The fileset includes data, R scripts, Matlab scripts, and figure files necessary to reproduce the figures and analysis. The dataset is published under an Open Access (green) license.

Use Cases

• Analyze feather vibration frequencies based on mechanical property data
• Model signal production mechanisms based on biomechanical measurements
• Reproduce published figures and statistical analyses using the provided scripts

Strengths

• Includes the data and scripts necessary to reproduce published figures and analysis
• Published under an Open Access (green) license, facilitating reuse

Limitations

• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download

Provenance

Source

Roslyn Dakin