Your friend wants to know why birds such as boobies and birds of paradise have elaborate mating rituals. You explain that:
1.Behavioral rituals are a way to keep a bird from breeding with the wrong species, since the rituals are specific to each species.
2.Birds are social and need a way to attract a mate.
3.Birds have evolved mating rituals as methods to display their elaborate and beautiful plumage.
4.Mating rituals have evolved to keep males from mating with more than one female.
1
You might also like to view...
The most common sexually transmitted bacterial pathogen and a major cause of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is:
a. Rickettsia rickettsii. b. Chlamydia trachomatis. c. Klebsiella granulomatis. d. Coxiella burnetii.
Mushrooms are most analogous to the ___ of a
flowering plant.
a. leaves b. flowers c. fruits d. roots e. stems
The positive subatomic particle is the ____
a. neutron b. proton c. electron d. positron e. quark
The basement membrane ________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).