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A courting male may also bite the female behind her gills or on her pectoral fins ; these mating wounds heal completely after 4 – 6 weeks.
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While courting, a male usually purrs deeply, swaying and circling the female in a behavior called " rumblestrutting ".
When courting, the male ascends some 30m before diving over an interested female at high speed and producing a high-pitched sound.
Most harriers are placed in the genus Circus, the scientific name arising from the circling movements female and male make when courting.
Gilmartin argues that the norm of the male always courting the female needs to be " thrown forever into the trash can and replaced with a normative system that is compassionate and congruent with the needs and natures of human beings.
Males may be seen courting in groups, often with the dominant male gobbling, spreading their tail feathers ( strutting ), drumming / booming and spitting.
The theory behind the team-courtship is that the less dominant male would have a greater chance of passing along shared genetic material than if it were courting alone.
Three differently plumaged types of male, including a rare form that mimics the female, use a variety of strategies to obtain mating opportunities at a lek, and the colourful head and neck feathers are erected as part of the elaborate main courting display.
In some species of birds, the males pair up in twos when courting, the beta male aiding the alpha male.
The male bites at the female's pectoral fins, gill region, and flanks while courting and to hold on for copulation.
The pair will begin to clean a flat surface if the female is responsive of the male's previous courting behavior. The female with then lay approximately 1000 – 2000 orange coloured eggs which will then be fertilized by the male.
When a male is courting, he spreads his tail feathers, sometimes five feet in length, out in a fan pattern to attract a female.
A courting male may not portray his defects to the female because his primary interest is to use his better attributes to win the challenge at hand.
Other courting males bite the male while he is attempting to copulate, damaging his flippers and tail, possibly exposing bones.
They are mainly a solitary species and courting is the only time they aggregate, generally one male with several females.
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To initiate courting, some roosters may dance in a circle around or near a hen (" a circle dance "), often lowering his wing which is closest to the hen.
During the beginning of the breeding season, courting pairs soar high together and one or both may make steep spiralling or swooping dives.
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The Bahamian Government also has adopted a proactive approach to courting foreign investors and has conducted major investment missions to the Far East, Europe, Latin America, and Canada.
But he also devoted considerable time to courting what he called the " men of influence " as the best way to achieve an Anglo-German alliance.
Target-group puffers have also been spawned in aquariums, and follow a similar courting behavior, minus the crest / keel display.
In 1857, they had also built their first carriage —" Fancy, hand-worked iron trim, the kind of courting buggy any boy and girl would be proud to be seen in ".
When Chiltern finds out that Finn is also courting Violet, he becomes infuriated and unreasonably demands that Finn withdraw.
He also began courting Dorothea " Thea " Kantorowicz, a German refugee ; they were married in May 1939.
He met Bette at a Boxing Day party at Auriol and, while courting her, he also coached her clubmates at Stuart Ladies ' Rowing Club on the River Lea.
Bell also paid for his friend – who was courting Airyn's sister – to accompany him to the Philippines and marry her.
It is only towards the end of the courting season that the hens arrive on the courting grounds, also called leks, meaning play in Norwegian.
Later, in Detective Comics, uncertain if she should pursue her " relationship " with Batman, Selina talks with Bruce about Jezebel Jet, his current girlfriend, and then has a pep talk with Zatanna, whom she believes is also courting Bruce.
Girard ’ s proposition accounts for the perversity of the Mathilde – Julien relationship, especially when he begins courting the widow Mme de Fervaques to pique Mathilde ’ s jealousy, but also for Julien ’ s fascination with and membership of the high society he simultaneously desires and despises.
Though primarily a courting instrument played privately and for personal enjoyment, it also could be used in conjunction with chants, song, and hula.
" Doctor Ice, also having trouble with resolving his multiple personalities, speaks of having a difficult time in his relationship with a young woman he is courting.
Historically, Filipino Americans have opposed unfairness and racial discrimination within the work force in the 1930s, also many of the Filipino American males were often punished harshly for courting or having sexual relations with White American women.
The circumstances of the murder left many witnesses who had seen Straffen with the girl: the bus conductor recognised Straffen as a former workmate, a courting couple in the meadow had seen Straffen very closely, and a policeman's wife had also seen the two together.
Aspiring peers who have not been invited can also “ apply ” by courting the lowest ranking members and progressing up to the Leader or Queen Bee who will decide whether to accept him or her.
Whitman attracted the attention of the poet Joel Barlow ( 1754 – 1812 ), who wrote flirtatious letters to Whitman while also courting another woman, Ruth Baldwin, whom he eventually married.
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