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Richard Dawkins: "We've evolved around courtship and sex, are attached to deep-rooted emotions and reactions that are hard to jettison overnight."
They have to engage in courtship.
For example, males will stimulate a female during a courtship chase.
You haven't lived until you've seen these guys do their courtship dance.
And what they do for their courtship dance is, they go together, the two of them, the two mates, and they begin to run underwater.
And that's what we would normally do in the usual process of courtship.
Together with my students at Tufts University and other colleagues, we've made lots of new discoveries about fireflies: their courtship and sex lives, their treachery and murder.
Worldwide, there are more than 2,000 firefly species, and these have evolved remarkably diverse courtship signals, that is, different ways to find and attract mates.
Driven now by sexual selection, some adult fireflies like this proud male evolved a shiny new glow-in-the-dark lantern that would let them take courtship to a whole new level.
So we can follow this male out into the field as he joins hundreds of other males who are all showing off their new courtship signals.
So the hunt begins with the predator — she's shown here in the lower left — where she's sitting quietly and eavesdropping on the courtship conversation of her intended prey, and here's how it might go.
Courtship is courtship.
Many male animals also use the penis as courtship device, like crane flies.
Males using their penises for courtship and females controlling their own sperm management are two reasons why genitalia evolve into such complex shapes.
So I've come to think that due to this cognitive overload, we're ushering in a new form of courtship that I call "slow love."
We didn't wait any prerequisite amount of time for our courtship; we told each other the vulnerable truths up front: I am a transgender man, which means the F on my birth certificate should have stood for "False," instead of "Female."
And for me, the fact that he was queer meant that I could trust his courtship from the very beginning.
Funny enough, I found that this was a 19th century Austrian tradition, where couples in courtship would keep a slice of apple crammed under their armpit during dances, and at the end of the evening, the girl would give the guy she most fancied her used fruit, and if the feeling was mutual, he would wolf down that stinky apple.
He shows courtship and love on her side, fighting on the other.
The story I wanted to do initially was just a small focus to look at the few weeks each year where these animals migrate down from the Canadian arctic to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada to engage in courtship, mating and to have their pups.
One state in Northern India has gone so far as to link toilets to courtship.
Courtship between fireman and aforementioned awful woman?
The courtship, taking place in two lengthy sequences set in the restaurant, consume the first half hour and are lethargically paced.
For me it started with "people let me tell you bout my best friend" - the theme song from "The Courtship of Eddie's Father."
She understood that Sondheim wanted that role to be something of a "comic" counterpart to Sweeney; and even brings some tenderness into her courtship of Sweeney and her nurture of the boy Tobias.
The 30-ish blonde disses him, but our villain must be quite smitten by her, because the courtship is on at that point.
The movie covers their long and tortured courtship, highlighting each break-up and make-up, but not developing the reasons in-between in any detail.
But only after a very long courtship, as Doctor Wong is anything but an easy woman.
Though I'm a bit too young to remember it fully, the minutiae of Lancashire life in the 60s is all here: cashing up on a Friday, songs round the piano, the Sunday constitutional, good neighbourliness, the trepidations of courtship, the massive importance of self-respect, and I was pleased to see Naughton's funniest lines from the play left intact.
But the sneaked-in romantic moments between the to-be-married couple and their stubborn resistance to modern courtship games makes you crave for the idealism.
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