Sentences with phrase «male ruffs»

Ruffled genes Burke was part of a team that, in 1995, found that the different approaches of male ruffs were caused by a single inherited factor.

Male ruffs belong to one of three different forms, each with a unique approach to mating.

Only one male Ruff was seen.

Not exact matches

Unlike territorial males, with their coloured ruffs, head tufts and big showy displays to impress females, these female mimics pursue a different mating strategy.

A type of wading sandpiper, ruffs are named after the large showy feathers sported by males around their necks during breeding season.

In the frenzy of ruff mating, which can involve many aggressive and displaying males, copulation is a speedy process.

With three distinct types of males, the ruff (Philomachus pugnax) is a strange bird indeed.

«Satellite» males are slightly smaller than Independents, do not defend territories and have white ruffs and head tufts.

There are three different types of ruff males (see accompanying video).

The ruff is a Eurasian shorebird that has a spectacular lekking behaviour where highly ornamented males compete for females.

Male dogs have a distinct ruff that is more noticeable than in females.

Mature males and female cats can have a ruff on the neck.

On the neck it is longer and thicker, on some males forming a slight ruff.

There should be a mane or ruff around the neck, more pronounced in males; and feathering on the back of the legs, forming a pantaloon on the back thighs.

The male typically has a thicker ruff around the neck.

Happily, Siskin was followed by a suite of 20 further etchings, published under the collective title Fly, each of which similarly depicts a single, expressive, beautifully drawn male head that terminates in a feather ruff.

Yiadom - Boakye's edition of ten hard ground etchings was made to accompany her acclaimed exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery this summer and depict single black male figures wearing the ruff of feathers that has become a familiar motif in her work.

The ten portraits each depict single, black, male figures wearing the ruffs of feathers that have become a familiar motif in her work.

In order to catch the attention of its female counterpart, the male Bird - of - Paradise flips its cape of black feathers into a large ruff that surrounds its head, while also fanning out an iridescent azure blue skirt of feathers from its breast.

The ten portraits depict single black male figures wearing the ruff of feathers that has become a familiar motif in her work.

The style arose around 1640, when fashion conscious barristers swapped fancy neck ruffs for «falling bands» of plain linen to conceal the collar of their shirt; known as jabots, these pieces of linen were thought to be an essential component of upper class, male fashion in the baroque period, and were originally very wide and flamboyant.