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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

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Courtship

• A specialised behaviour which precedes copulation
  in some species.

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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)
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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
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• Binomial name of the species
• Detailed information on the courting ritual
• Why the species does this
• Pictures
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