mating ritual
Precopulatory display behavior
A mating ritual is a pattern of behavior animals perform to attract mates and facilitate reproduction—displays, dances, calls, or gift-giving that signal fitness to potential partners.
The peacock's tail display is perhaps nature's most famous mating ritual.
Extended to humans, often humorously, for the awkward performances of courtship: Buying drinks at the bar is a time-honored mating ritual.
- visual signalsCommunication through sight
- bowerLeafy garden shelter
- pheromonesSpecies-specific chemical messengers
- courtship displaysBehaviors to attract mates
- nuptialOf a wedding
vocalizations · synchronized movements · symbolic gifts · spring fever · rutting season · romantic gestures · sexual selection · wedding ceremonies · love songs · reproductive cycles · pair bonding · love nest · birdsong · territoriality · display · scent marking · come hither · peacock
- animal behaviorsswimming, running, walking, jumping, flying
- behaviorshabit, aggressive, agitation, conduct, passive
- matingbreeding, courtship display, courtship dance, copulation, pairing
- reproductionreproduction, birth, baby, egg, sperm
- instinctsinstinct, survival instinct, survival instincts, gut instinct, herd instinct
- spawningspawning, spawning season, spawning ground, spawning grounds, fish spawning
mating ritualcopulation
Sexual joining of bodies
mating · coitus · fertilization · breeding · sexual intercourse
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