AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Courtship behavior can include things like food delivery, dance moves (displays), and mutual preening. In many cases, the most extravagant courtship displays belong to the species where males contribute little else to the relationship-think strutting grouse or dancing birds-of-paradise.

Detailed explanation-2: -A wide variety of organisms from the animal kingdom do a form of a dance to attract the opposite sex. The birds tend to be the most creative and dramatic! Lizards will bob their heads, zebras and horses will run side by side, and fish and seahorses will do a courtship dance underwater. Here are some video examples.

Detailed explanation-3: -San Francisco Call, Volume 77, Number 44, 13 January 1895-THREE KINDS OF COURTSHIP [ARTICLE] Defined as the Antique, Ephemeral and Progressive.

Detailed explanation-4: -Courtship behaviour. • Courtship in animals is the behaviour by which different species select. their partners for reproduction. Usually, the male starts the courtship, and the female chooses to either mate or reject the male based on his “performance". Many animals have mate-selection courtship rituals.