Peafowl are known for their incredible courtship dances, performed by the male to attract a mate during the breeding season. The male spreads his train of iridescent tail feathers into a fan, which he ...

Tap dancing birds, shuffling spiders, and wiggling honeybees; dancing is not just a human phenomenon. Many types of animals ...

Mating dances are not unusual in the bird kingdom, 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 ...

Lekking occurs when males of certain animal species gather to attract females in specific locations, known as leks. Within a lek, males often perform complex displays, including show dances, calls, ...

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 ...