Sentences with phrase «females during courtship»

However, since only 6 out of 45,000 spider species worldwide have males injuring conspecific females during courtship or mating, it is a very interesting finding.

It had already been known that Saccopteryx males, beside their mating calls, present a self - made «perfume» to the females during courtship.

While male hummingbirds of other species swoop over the female during courtship dives, the shimmery purple - faced Costa's zoom by on the side.

Not exact matches

Every spring, male sage - grouse, which stand two feet high, return to historic strutting grounds known as leks to perform elaborate courtship dances during which they inflate yellow air sacs on their chests to impress female onlookers.

During courtship, males wave their wings in front of the females for a few seconds, dispersing the scent that comes out of these bags.

But apparently the single most attractive feature to females is not a male's power suit or macho strut but his snood — a fleshy appendage above his beak (an arrow points to it here) that can stretch to twice its ordinary length during courtship.

Often, during courtship, females in heat mount and hump their male «suitors.»