Sentences with phrase «mating rituals»

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

10 One of nature's most elaborate mating rituals belongs to the nursery web spider.

Male turtles use their claws during mating rituals with female turtles.

At the same time, new research indicates that the moon continually produces its own water through a strange mating ritual between hydrogen from the sun and oxygen on the ground.

Members of a single species can evolve to create different mating rituals, ones that won't attract members of the other species.

The game is still about the same old mating ritual.

Depending on the time of year, this is an excellent place to witness the thrilling mating rituals these birds are famous for.

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.

Our fellow animal lovers at the BBC Natural History Unit recently sent us some great information on the similarities of animal mating rituals with that of us humans.

As a new capital markets associate at Lehman Brothers in 2001, I was thrown into the summer program mating ritual known as rotations.

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.

Feathers by Thor Hanson (Basic Books) Few of us would connect the extravagant costumes of Las Vegas showgirls to avian mating rituals, but that's what biologist Thor Hanson does in this natural and cultural history of the feather.

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Exhibit A of this need is Shalit's description of end - of - the - century American mating rituals.

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.

Despite my Winona pixie cut and braces, he seemed to like me too (probably because of my new boobs sparkling personality), and we spent the summer doing the tween mating rituals.

Racy repartee is essential to the golf mating ritual.

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.

Much has been written about the dynastic mating ritual between Rupert Murdoch and his lieutenants and David Cameron and his.

A less bird - obsessed man might have quailed, but Prum re-emerged with a string of discoveries that have reshaped the field's understanding of such fundamental questions as what feathers are for and how mating rituals drive avian evolution.

Inspired by a lonely glowworm, a British zoologist investigates how humans are disturbing mating rituals of the natural world.

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.

But the male's bleat may also be involved in panda mating rituals, since males produce them far more frequently during breeding season and females often respond back with chirps of their own.

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

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.

Other sexually selected traits include: lion's manes, great tit's or budgie's plumage, grouse mating rituals, insect love tokens, the height of human males and human hair, intelligence and facial features.

Last year, National Geographic reported on the octopus's strange mating ritual.

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

Saccopteryx males bring their fragrance into play by a specific mating ritual: as soon as the female is susceptible, the male hovers in front of her for two to four seconds.

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.

Contemporary Mating Rituals has underrepresented voices in both our cast.

But I've seen enough examples of this modern mating ritual to understand how it works, and it's not that different from what you're trying to do on the trade show floor.

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?).

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.

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

Depending on the time of year, you may witness the magnificent frigatebirds» electrifying mating rituals.

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

The piece is a nod to both minimalism and op art, while also intended to mirror the bizarre and beautiful mating ritual of gynandromorphic leopard slugs.

A ground - dwelling bird, no larger than a chicken and best known for its males» exotic mating rituals, is at the center of the most comprehensive land - use plan ever imposed by the federal government.

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.

In general, feline mating rituals make Tinder look a lot more civilized.

It has come to my attention that the primary mating ritual between porcupines involves the male urinating on the female.

David Norman (Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences) discusses how palaeontologists can interpret fossil footprints to find clues as to whether dinosaurs performed dance - like mating rituals.

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!

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The great bowerbird (Chlamydera nuchalis)-- a cousin of crows and jays — has an elaborate mating ritual that relies on the male's ability to conjure forced perspective.

Increasingly all it is becoming known for... So is it still the gem of the Gulf, the tropical paradise that has attracted so many backpackers and tourists over the years, or has it become a Malia like place where drunken youngsters gather en mass for a monthly dance / mating ritual known as the Full Moon Party?