Copulation

Male satin bowerbirds court females at their bower site using energetic dancing and vocal displays. Females make repeated visits to male's bowers and as this process progresses females enter into a crouch and eventually lift their rear signalling readiness to copulate. Maurauding males may also attempt to force copulate with females. In satin bowerbirds the courtship commonly involves males giving a highly inyense initial "mechanical" segment of display in which there are buzzes and trills coordinated with wing flips and movements across the front of the bower and a later and less intense mimicry portion in which the male may mimic up to 5 local species. Several factors affect male success in courtship: the intensity of male display (Borgia, G. 1995. Emu 95: 1-12., male ability to react to female signals of comfort (Patricelli G.L., Uy J.A.C., Walsh G. & Borgia G. 2002. Nature 415: 279-280. ), the quality of male mimicry and the number of species mimiced (Loffredo, C. and Borgia, G. 1986. Auk 103: 189-195; Coleman SW, Patricelli GL, Coyle B, Siani J, and Borgia G. 2007. Biol. Lett. 3, 463466.).

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[glossyblackcockatoo]

Thank you for making this video of such a special event!

[Ahar0n1]

My ears...

[CripNinja]

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[djs0229922]

Haha she got raped