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A male peacock’s train plumage, on the other hand, is spectacular! Wooing His Mate. The most eye-catching parts of the train plumage are the ocelli or ‘eyespots’.
This is particularly true for smaller animals like cats and dogs if they happen to get too close to a peacock nest. Male peacocks can get aggressive during mating season and will be more ...
Male peacock spider, Maratus volans, courtship display In some species, males will perform ritualized movements to attract females. The male six-plumed bird-of-paradise (Parotia lawesii) exemplifies male courtship display with its ritualized "ballerina dance" and unique occipital and breast feathers that serve to stimulate the female visual system. [7]
Song: Male birdsong provides an important way of protecting territory (intrasexual selection). Nest construction: In some species, males build nests that females subject to rigorous inspection, choosing the male that makes the most attractive nest. Dance: Males dance in front of females. Cranes provide a well-known example.
The black swan, Cygnus atratus is a large waterbird which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia.An estimated one-quarter of all black swans pairings are homosexual and they steal nests, or form temporary threesomes with females to obtain eggs, driving away the female after she lays the eggs.
Two male white peacocks engaged in an elegant fight at a zoo in Vietnam, circling and leaping at each other. Video captured at Thu Le Park in Hanoi on May 17 shows the beautiful dance-fight, which ...
For example, female peacocks tend to prefer male peacocks with bright plumage. The females think that if they mate with males with bright plumage, the offspring will have similar characteristics. S. Josefin Dahlbom and colleagues experimented on zebra fish ( Danio rerio ) to study the difference in aggression level between males and females if ...
Elephants can use their ears as threat displays in male-to-male competition. Sexual selection in mammals is a process the study of which started with Charles Darwin's observations concerning sexual selection, including sexual selection in humans, and in other mammals, [1] consisting of male–male competition and mate choice that mold the development of future phenotypes in a population for a ...