Image by Tim Laman/Macaulay Library. For example, when the male Vogelkop superb bird-of-paradise is ready to woo a female, it spreads out its black cape into a crescent shape, its iridescent blue ...

Carola Parotia (Parotia carolae), Superb bird of paradise (Lophorina superba), and Blue bird of paradise (Paradisaea rudolphi) all have wildly different displays they perform for their female ...

Their elaborate dances, poses, and other rituals accentuate their appearance and put on a phenomenal show for both female birds ... part of the male's time. Birds of paradise are found in New ...

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If you’ve seen BBC’s Planet Earth, you may recall of one of its sillier scenes: the superb bird-of-paradise mating dance. A female hops up to a male, who unveils a mane of feathers and puts on ...

First dates are a little weird for everybody, but the Superb Bird-of-Paradise may have the craziest first date in the animal kingdoms. This avian actually warps its whole body and dances so that ...

Then he puts on a dance, moving around a female in semi-circle motions ... that the Vogelkop is genetically distinct from the superb bird of paradise species, which is now named the greater ...

This new species, called the Vogelkop Superb Bird-of-Paradise, is found only in the ... The way the Vogelkop male dances for the female is also is distinctive, the steps being smooth instead ...