Peafowl are known for their incredible courtship dances, performed by the male to attract a mate during the breeding season.

Attracting a mate is essential if you are going to pass your genes down to the next generation. Many animal species have fascinating, and sometimes borderline bizarre, ways of attracting a mate or at ...

Over two years, researchers recorded and analyzed 7,000 songs of wild blue tits breeding in closely monitored nest boxes. They devised an experiment which involved playing song recordings to receptive ...

Wisdom, the 72-year-old albatross residing on an island northwest of Hawai'i, is performing mating dances for potential partners Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

In the wild, finding a mate isn’t always about looks or calls– sometimes, it’s all about the dance. For many birds, courtship involves a carefully rehearsed performance. These routines aren’t random ...

Scientists found biofluorescence in most species of birds-of-paradise, including the emperor bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea guilielmi), shown here from the American Museum of Natural History's ...

Surely the most beautiful sound in the forest is that of the wood thrush song. Likened to the ethereal notes of a flute duet, the song's three varying parts always include one signature constant: the ...