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Examples of Courtship Behaviour
  • Rare hummingbird http//video.nationalgeographic.c
    om/video/player/news/animals-news/hummingbird-cour
    tship-vin.html
  • Sticklebacks
  • http//www.arkive.org/three-spined-stickleback/gas
    terosteus-aculeatus-aculeatus/video-ac09b.html
  • Drumming parrots
  • http//www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/parrots-in
    -the-land-of-oz/video-cockatoo-uses-tools-to-attra
    ct-a-mate/732/
  • Birds of paradise
  • http//video.yahoo.com/watch/2354190/7364247
  • Black widow
  • http//video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/a
    nimals/bugs-animals/spiders-and-scorpions/spider_b
    lackwidow_sex.html

2
Courtship
  • A specialised behaviour which precedes copulation
    in some species.

3
Great Bowerbird Display
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Sexual Suicide
Costs Benefits
Death! Nupital gift
Fertilise more eggs posthumously
Female unlikely to mate again
No other mates to find (increased survival)
6
Wordsearch answers
  • bowerbird, redback spider, stickleback, nupital
    gift, sexual suicide, nest, copulation,
    competition, dancing, monogamous, polygynous,
    polyandrous, display,

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Research
  • Research a species courtship behaviour
  • You must include
  • Binomial name of the species
  • Detailed information on the courting ritual
  • Why the species does this
  • Pictures
  • You could include
  • Interesting facts and information
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