Sentences with phrase «of singing males»

The best evidence is an active nest; however, the presence of singing males and / or adult females during the breeding season is also of great interest.

If a female túngara frog doesn't fancy the call of a singing male, she moves on to another suitor or may give him a body slam.

It swoops onto the back of a singing male cricket, deposits a smear of larvae, and leaves its wicked brood to invade, kill and consume the cricket from inside out.

Not exact matches

(CNN)-- When Shane Wright met with members of Vocal Point, a Brigham Young University a cappella group that was considering competing on NBC's singing show «The Sing Off,» the main question he had for the nine male students had nothing to do with their singing talent.

She was a known historical type — modernist ex-pat, an American in Paris — but add her black skin and naked body, dancing and singing before adoring Europeans, and you have a phenomenon well suited to themes of transgression and performativity, the male gaze and the allure of the Other.

At a November 1999 Stonewall concert attended by Cherie Blair, Frank Dobson and Simon Hughes, 18 - year - old male strippers dressed as boy scouts, who were accompanying Sir Elton John singing «It's a sin», stripped off their uniforms to the loud approval of the audience.

Colin Jones, who then conducted the Rhosllanerchrugog Male Voice Choir and taught at the Royal Northern College of Music, would occasionally give me singing lessons and I got to sing Jean - Baptiste Lully's Bois Epais on the radio.

But what happens if the female can not hear the male's singing because of too much noise in the water?

A concert of croaking male frogs is a fierce singing contest, and he who has the sexiest voice gets to mate the most.

Male Hawaiian crickets that have lost the ability to chirp still go through the motion of «singing», even though females can't hear them

In the temperate zones of the Northern hemisphere, usually only the male birds sing.

Amrhein thinks the birds might be chasing other males away from their valuable larder instead of singing.

The deep, vibrating chants of fin whales are love ballads sung by males to woo whale señoritas, a new study finds.

Normally, fruit fly females decide whether or not to mate within 15 minutes of a male courting them by dancing, singing (with their wings), and releasing pheromones.

In her experiments, she wants to see how the males and females sing together, so they need free movement of their wings.

Most of the mutant males, the singing sex, had problems learning their songs while young and, once fully grown, produced aberrant songs.

The duets sung by male and female mosquitoes are a critical part of their mating ritual.

Females were compared to the behaviour of the males and were seen as relatively «lazy» with regard to singing.

For instance, it's currently impossible to tell how a female swimming through a group of males singing the same song picks out one animal from the rest.

Zebra Finch males sing and females don't, and males have 85 % of the syrinx muscles made up of superfast fibers.

During breeding season, which takes place over the winter months, groups of male humpback whales will display for potential mates by singing their famously haunting songs, breaching, and performing a host of other competitive displays that depend on speed, strength and size.

Males start singing when they pick up the scent of a female, but singers are hard to spot because they don't make any obvious movements while serenading.

These nerve cells form part of the pathway that controls a male canary's singing.

After complex songs, male tui approached the speaker faster, got closer and sang more complex songs (Ibis International Journal of Avian Science, doi.org/cfdt).

While it is well - known that socially monogamous songbird males sing to attract females, we report here the first example of a multimodal dance display that is not a uniquely male trait in these birds.

Most of the time I am a shaved head 5» 11.5» male, that sings karaoke, and owns and drives the «Karaoke Cab STL» in St. Louis, MO..

I like to laugh at things, that remind me of myself, i sing in two choir at church the male and adult choir.

She stars in 3 of my all - time favorite films (Annie Hall, Godfather # 2 & Reds) & as I watched her male co-stars in each come to the podium to sing her praises (Yup!

Yes, Llewyn is an incorrigible screw - up, having, among other things, impregnated a friend who also happens to be the wife of another friend, two halves of the very palatable - to - the - mainstream female / male singing duo Jean and Jim (Carey Mulligan and Justin Timberlake).

In place of the tightly - wound farce of Four Weddings and a Funeral, which came with Wet Wet Wet on the soundtrack, we get some Nick - Hornby - inflected alt - rock tracks featuring tremulous males singing over wistfully out - of - tune pianos.

As she convalesces, she subjects her three new male roommates to crying jags, periodic singing to herself and repeated viewings of Dirty Dancing.

One of the last close - ups is of the chevalier ring slipping onto the winner's finger; it's as if we're witnessing an all - male wedding, the homoerotic love angle emphasized by Petula Clark singing «Let It Be Me» on the soundtrack.

Lulled by the voice of Karen Carpenter singing «Yesterday Once More» on the station - wagon radio, she accidentally drives off and leaves her kids at a diner, and I'm reminded that it was the female characters in «Boardwalk Empire» (Kelly Macdonald as Margaret Schroeder Thompson; Gretchen Mol as Gillian Darmody), as well as the minority characters (Michael Kenneth Williams as Chalky White), who gave that show an accessibility and emotional depth it wouldn't have had if it were populated only with its endless parade white male mobsters.

At a celebration in February for Teach for America's 20th anniversary, Education Secretary Arne Duncan sang the praises of an all - male, largely black charter school in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, Urban Prep Academy, which replaced a high school deemed a failure.

As much as I despise the Republicans, I hope they take hold of the reigns again, just to stick it to the Kumbaya - singing, cannabis - worshiping, rainbow - flag - waving haters of white, straight, working, middle - class, Christian males.

Recordings of singing canaries can entice a single male start to sing again, as can bringing in a female or even another male in a separate cage.

These same hens then sing sporadically after that, but never with the consistency of males.

The cost of a male canary, for example, may be twice that of a female because only males sing.

Fortunately, most males sing vigorously in the presence of females, allowing their gender to be determined conclusively.

During the course of singing, most male society finches engage in courtship displays, during which they fluff up their feathers and excitedly hop about the cage.

Cakepung is a male social performance, combination of singing and dancing, done strictly for recreation and amusement, and is found today only in Karangasem Regency and on Lombok, its former vassal state.

Instead of human - machine interactions and a viewing pace hinged on proximity, here the dramatic encounter of two megaphones from opposite side of a hanging rail gradually approaching each other singing a duet of female and male voices and causing a pile of neon tubes to flare and extinguish until the two megaphones come to a stand - off midway, exploding into a thundering abstraction and dazzlingly white light as if the harmony is pixelated into fragments of destruction.

Amarcord, one of Germany's outstanding male vocal ensembles, sings a special program of Renaissance music to complement the works by German and Netherlandish Renaissance masters in the Gallery's collection.

It transforms into an amphitheatre resonating sounds of explosions in the ground, machines cutting the coal - face, shovels scratching the earth, and the distant melody of the Miner's Lament, all sung by Snowdown Colliery Welfare Male Voice Choir grouping in formations reminiscent of picket lines.

Louise Lawler's audio - recording Birdcalls» (1972 - 81) employs the artist's voice to sing, squawk and chatter the blue - chip names of twenty - eight male artists as though they were unique species of birds.

The artist thinks of his performance works as images which become animated and, in Amidst a Sea of Flailing High Heels and Cooking Utensils, an ensemble of male and female dancers performed to an original live musical composition, adopting poses derived from Renaissance notions of the ideal body, and singing musical refrains extrapolated from pop songs.

In I Need Love, Moor sings LL Cool J's song of the same title, subverting the largely male - dominated world of Hip Hop through her embodiment of the lyrics.

Dance to the End of Love was made out of low resolution footage made mainly with mobile phones in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Saudi - Arabia and Oman, and showing male bodybuilders, men driving cars and riding motorcycles, singing and dancing, but when included within this 4 - channel - video, this unique piece becomes a symphony in 5 movements about the loneliness of the oppressed, about hundreds of thousands crushed and forgotten in their home countries, who choose to use their computer screens as sites to live out their collective, heroic dreams.

Only the males are singing during mating and breeding season in the tropics, so we kind of assume it's to attract the attention of females.

Both of us would sing the respective male and female parts.