The strutting peacock with its spectacular tail is one of the most colourful courting males. While seeking for a mate the peacock opens its long train to form a fan spanning about 5 feet. It then lets out loud rasping shrieks to attract the dull and plain female to the colourful display put on for her sake.
Who could resist this kind of colorful decoration
and an open invitation?
The bower-bird of Australia and New Guinea does not call for a mate. Instead the male lures the female with an elaborate work of art - a bower of love.
These hut like structures are built in small clearings. They are painted with the mixture of plant juice and saliva.
They are decorated with flowers, berries, shells or bones. Some are even surrounded by garden of moss, twigs and stones.
Each species build its own particular type of bower. Some elaborate bowers have thousands of twigs and hundreds of decorations.
After mating they abandon the honeymoon suits - built by the male spending many days. The hen builds a nest on the tree and lays her eggs there.
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