Sentences with phrase «males during the courtship»

The researchers suggest that the strategy enables males to attract mates without alerting other males during the courtship ritual.

Not exact matches

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

SING ON Acoustic cameras reveal how male Costa's hummingbirds can aim the sound produced by fluttering tail feathers during courtship dives.

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.

Like about two dozen other manakins, the male uses its wings in a way that biologists don't yet understand to «sing» for its mate — producing clicking, rattling, and humming noises as it prances around during group courtship displays.

Male fence lizards of the species Sceloporus undulatus have bright blue «badges» outlined in black on both sides of their throats and abdomens, and previous studies have shown that testosterone drives the production of these badges, which are highly visible during the animal's courtship rituals and other behavioral displays.

«The actions that males perform during courtship?

Aside from their chameleon - like ability to change colors, the males of these small, agile lizards also possess a throat fan — known as a dewlap — which they use during territorial disputes and for courtship.

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

Previous work on wolf spiders has indicated that male courtship vibrations vary when male diet is manipulated during development [41]--[43].

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

The most dramatic body language occurs when rival males meet, during courtship or over fiercely protected territory (in general, cats are happy to let other cats pass through their territory or even time - share it, but the core territory may be fiercely protected).

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