#mating dances

[gwydionmisha]

Dinosaurs Gathered to Perform Mating Dances With Kicks and Spins at This Site in Colorado—and You Can Go See It for Yourself

Paleontologists have discovered what appears to be one of the largest dinosaur courtship arenas in the world, just 15 miles west of Denver

[sams-stray-thoughts]

Dating apps just aren't working, can we go back to mating dances?

[doks-aux]

Rabbit courtship behavior is called cavorting. That's so cute.

I am researching this for no particular reason.

[bounce-a-coin-off-your-witcher]

What would happen if mothskier and fairy jaskier met? Start complimenting each others wings? Their wisdom in selecting a geralt for their husband?

They would get along too well. I think their respective husbands would sleep with their eyes open for several nights.

Also this ask reminded me of a conversation I had with @veritasrose about which member of the relationship (Mothskier or Geralt) would have to do the mating dance when they decided to really settle down. We agreed that, since Geralt took the first step towards romance by building Jaskier a 'nest', he would be the one to dress up in bright colors and bop through the ritual booty-wiggles to impress his mate.

We definitely agreed that any Jaskier with wings is Wife Material.

So do with that what you will.

[ineffable-nerds]

Yo what if angels and demons do elaborate mating dances like birds???

Except it doesn’t translate to human bodies very well, so you just see Aziraphale with his wings puffed up sidling around Crowley in a circle? Awkwardly. And Crowley doesn’t get it bc obviously they’d have completely different mating cycles due to demonic influences or whatever, so he’s just like “WHat??? is happening?!?”

And obvs Aziraphale is SAD bc Crowley didn’t like it and Crowley notices and thye go out for dinner but no one ever explains whta happens, so next time it’s Crowley’s turn and he starts bringing shiny stuff bc obs he’s more like a magpie and it culminates in some sort of awkward disco, but Aziraphale is just like “why has he given me this silver spoon?”

And this just repeats every century or so.

But as they spend more time on Earth their cycles sync up until sometime after the apocalypse Aziraphale starts fluffing up right when Crowley starts picking up shiny rocks, and they (through a series of hilarious mishaps) realize what’s going on and they both start swearing bc they realize they’re idiots who have been in love this whole time

[ellis-illustrates]

Pepper dancing like toothless in HTTYD 3 to try to woo his love and the other just thinking its super cute yet is confused why

anon, whoever you are, somehow, you know my exact interests.

tl;dr

Pepper is a fucking dork who has no idea how to date someone

[biglisbonnews]

Less whaling means less whale wailing A new study published in the journal Nature Communications Biology suggests that whale songs may actually just be nature's emo croon. Using an 18-year dataset of humpback whale behavior, the researchers noticed that whale song had become an increasingly less successful mating tactic for the male humps as populations have recovered from the height whaling. — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/02/19/less-whaling-means-less-whale-wailing.html

[mrsfitzgerald]

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