Sentences with phrase «in mating rituals»

This ability might be especially important during full moons, when fishes have been shown to partake in mating rituals.

Animals have of course customs, instincts, practices and rituals, like in mating rituals.

A couple embraces and kisses, and participate in a mating ritual (without explicit description).

It's the same for every species on the planet, you can see it in any mating ritual on the Discovery channel but this truth has been reversed and buried under the eternal lie fostered upon us by the church.

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A video shared online by the Edinburgh Zoo in England shows the popular penguin colony's mating ritual.

A friend of mine, a straight hillbilly type from Arkansas who raised show pigeons, claimed he used to «have no use for qu ee rs», until he ran across several c0c ks and hens that wouldn't mate and then put them in the same cage because he didn't know what else to do with them, and then they started mating rituals with the same $ ex.

In the mate drinking ritual, the host fills the gourd two - thirds with yerba mate, places the bombilla on the leaves and pours on hot — not boiling — water.

Today we in the West have lost this, we live as children eternally, there's no coming of age ritual in the same way, society has watered down the issue to having a beer with your dad and his mates when you're 16.

A simple lunch was the first stage in an extended mating ritual that would ultimately lead the fresh - faced Tory leader into the Chipping Norton set, and the clutches of News International.

Strogatz and Kevin O'Keeffe, Ph.D.» 17, used the curious mating ritual of male Japanese tree frogs as inspiration for their exploration of «swarmalators» — their term for systems in which both synchronization and swarming occur together.

For some species, males and female fireflies signal to each other in a multi-step mating ritual, while other species use flashes to lure and devour hapless interlopers.

Driven by the forces of sexual selection, male — and, in some instances, female — animals have evolved a dizzying array of mating displays and rituals.

These interactions included «lateral display» — when one fish interrupts another by displaying their body side - on, sometimes as a mating ritual — as well as ramming, tail quivering, and «mouth fighting»: a social display in which fish lock mouths to challenge each other over everything from food to mates.

This one, filmed near Whyalla, South Australia, is in the middle of a mating ritual, showing off its ability to display an entire color spectrum on its skin.

A strange buzzing sound made during the singing mating ritual of an African finch is in fact a tap dance so fast it is invisible to the human eye

The greater sage grouse is one of a handful of lek mating species in North America; males habitually return to certain sites to perform elaborate ritual dances that attract mates — and birdwatchers.

His extensive mating rituals rebuffed, a chimpanzee called Totti is enjoying a rest beneath the canopy of a rainforest in Uganda's Kibale National Park.

Every spring, male sage grouse gather to strut their stuff in riveting mating rituals.

When geographical barriers — such as rising sea levels or retracting ice floes — separate populations, they may develop genetic, physiological, or behavioral differences; changes in chromosome structure or number; differently shaped genitalia; or incompatible mating times and rituals — any of which can prevent successful reproduction.

But sexual isolation through mate discrimination may be what gives many animal species their unique identities, and accounts for the brilliant plumage and bizarre mating rituals seen in some vertebrates.

There is a special ritual of hospitality and friendship that surrounds the daily act of sharing yerba mate in a circle.

Russian brides are actually «bought» during a wedding ritual, where the groom and his best mates have to go through trials in order to collect his beloved from her home.

NY TIMES — Apr 10 — Scientists can now watch mating rituals in real time (thanks to online dating).

Please don't think I myself am old - fashioned, in fact I am quite the feminist but I am also realistic to know that male and female mating rituals are just that, primal most likely with men having the genetics to be the hunters!

We Montreal girls perform the mating ritual until our feathers are ruffled and our tired little wings hurt from flying around in circles.

In order to educate and not just just allow you to chill out and stare at nature, the film ties in two researchers who follow the birds and dream of filming them during the mating ritualIn order to educate and not just just allow you to chill out and stare at nature, the film ties in two researchers who follow the birds and dream of filming them during the mating ritualin two researchers who follow the birds and dream of filming them during the mating rituals.

And it really would be in movie - star style if it wasn't for the fact that she's bringing her cringe-fest professor dad along for the ride (Dad's specialization: human mating rituals — need Nessa say more?).

Students will study and observe the mating rituals for animals and organisms, adaptive processes in the environment, and eating habits of the different species.

Every month, in the days following the full - moon, the waters in the shallow bays around the Turks & Caicos islands are illuminated by Mother Nature's light show with glow worm mating rituals.

Charge your cameras or batteries and take along spares so that you're not caught in the middle of an impressive mating ritual in Kruger Park without anything on which to record it.

In fact, I was even able to shoot a little video of two blue footed boobies going through a mating ritual.

Mandarinfish performs intricate mating rituals in the shallow bays of Buton Island.

Take in a relaxing sunset sail or Glow Worm Tour; a natural phenomenon that occurs around the full moon when the Odontosyllis enopla turns green luminescent during its» mating ritual, unique only to Turks & Caicos and up to Bermuda.

Cruising the islands by boat, you can walk among marine iguanas basking in the sun and observe the elaborate mating rituals of boobies, albatrosses and frigate birds.

The Parade as a body of work exists in a similar abject vein as her various other works, yet in this exhibition she focuses on the avian rituals of flocking, mating and pageantry.

That summer, he ventured out each evening with camera in hand to observe the fireflies» mysterious mating ritual.

Closer to home, when we lived on a dirt road in the Hudson Valley (we now live in a village), my son, wife and I experienced the value of silence and sound as a male woodcock chose our back field and the sky overhead for its dusk mating flight, a ritual that includes a spiraling descent to the ground and mating call.

The initiative was set in place to protect and conserve 220,000 square kilometers of lush rainforest on the island and according to a new report by leading conservation organization, World Wildlife Fund, it has resulted in the exciting discovery of 123 new species... so far.The rare yellow - green ibycus rachelae slug has been dubbed the ninja slug after its mating ritual was discovered to include firing «love darts» full of hormones into its mate.

Good news for conservationists as over 120 new species have been discovered in a protected part of Borneo, including the longest stick insect in the world, a lungless frog and a slug that shoots love darts into his mate during a bizarre courting ritual.

Near Palmer, what once was an island covered by a massive Adélie penguin colony is now barren, covered in the mountains of pebbles they brought for mating rituals and left behind over the years.

Now, only days after the blue stork's first appearance in Biegen, residents and spectators are greatly relieved to watch as the strange stork has been joined in the traditional mating rituals by a female of the normal black - and - white variety.