Transcript Examples of Courtship Behaviour

Examples of Courtship Behaviour
• Rare hummingbird
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/news/animalsnews/hummingbird-courtship-vin.html
• Sticklebacks
http://www.arkive.org/three-spined-stickleback/gasterosteus-aculeatusaculeatus/video-ac09b.html
• Drumming parrots
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/parrots-in-the-land-of-oz/videocockatoo-uses-tools-to-attract-a-mate/732/
• Birds of paradise
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2354190/7364247
• Black widow
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/animals/bugsanimals/spiders-and-scorpions/spider_blackwidow_sex.html
Courtship
A specialised behaviour which precedes
copulation in some species.
Great Bowerbird Display
Sexual Suicide
Costs
Death!
Benefits
Nupital gift
Fertilise more eggs
posthumously
Female unlikely to
mate again
No other mates to
find (increased
survival)
Wordsearch answers
• bowerbird, redback spider, stickleback,
nupital gift, sexual suicide, nest,
copulation, competition, dancing,
monogamous, polygynous, polyandrous,
display,
Research
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