Crane Dance
birds or animals doing courtship dancing?
I just noticed something. The whooping crane does a usual crane dance when they want to mate. Are there any types of birds or animals that also do some type of dance for either mating or for respect? Also, please no rude or improper comments.
Many non-human animal species have mate-selection rituals also referred to as courtship. Animal courtship may involve complicated dances or touching; vocalizations; or displays of beauty or fighting prowess.
Most animal courtship occurs out of sight of humans, so it is often the least documented of animal behaviors. One animal whose courtship rituals are well studied is the bower-bird, whose male builds a “bower” of collected objects.
An example of complex animal courtship is found in the Blue Wildebeest, where the male elaborately stakes out and defends a mating territory.
Then by a series of body postures and displays of athleticism (such as using his horns to gore trees), he attracts the female to his territory for mating. In correspondence the female occasionally involves herself in some of the same horning rituals when meeting the male.
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