Animals In Love 💗🐾 Courtship In The Wild

Birds do it, bees do it, even barn owls and tawny owls do it.. time to fall in love with this compilation of animal courtship taken from watching wildlife around the world.

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ANIMAL COURTSHIP
The lengths different species go to to woo a mate is fascinating. Some perform intricate and elaborate dances, others dress up for the occasion and some dispense with etiquette and simply give chase. This compilation is taken from a lifetime of watching and filming wildlife around the world.

EACH SPECIES HAS ITS OWN LOVE TACTICS
I’ve labelled each of the species and the location of my filming so you can follow the action easily. It’s interesting how each species has evolved and developed its own specific courtship rituals.

THERES THE LOVE DANCE
The most common ritual looks like a slow dance and is mostly performed by birds like seabirds, especially the gannets here in Yorkshire and albatrosses in The Galapagos Islands, but some mammals also seem to dance, just look at the ow foxes and slow trunk-wrapped African elephants make their moves.

THE COMICS
Some dance rituals look downright comical to our eyes. Check out the blue-footed boobies as they side step to impress in The Galapagos.

DRESS TO IMPRESS
Many species dress up to impress their mates. Magnificent frigatebirds, also in The Galapagos Islands, put on a really impressive show when they puff up those red pouches at their necks. Meanwhile in the Highlands of Scotland the red deer stags shower themselves with putrid swamp water and decorate their antlers in mosses and grass to get the ladies going.

THE SHY AND THE BOLD, THE ROUGH AND THE GENTLE
Some animals are shy, watch the kingfisher, normally a solitary bird, slowly side step closer to its mate, and others are bold and simple chase a prospective mate, like hares. There are a few that are a little rough, like this stoat biting the tail of its mate, whilst others ever so gentle.

ENJOY
I hope you take the time from your busy days to just enjoy these moments from wildlife.

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