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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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 ...

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 ...

but the displays put on by birds of paradise are mesmerizing. The male bird in the above clip is doing his best to impress a female, and the display he puts together is awesome. Here, we will ...

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 ...