Science news articles about 'courtship song'

Rather than compete for females, male long-tailed manakins pair up to perform their courtship song and dance.

... detect nearby sounds--like the male's courtship song--that cause vibrations in the air, a bit ... leading to behaviors like copulation (in the case of the courtship song), while the wind-detecting neurons ...

... that underlie this defensive behavior and see a different set of neurons "light up" in response to wind versus the sound of courtship song. The team mounted a fly upside down under a ...

... between the sexes. Instead, females only expose their genitalia for copulation after males produce a courtship "song" by tapping the water surface. 150 years after the publication of Charles Darwin's ...