Sentence examples for communal display from inspiring English sources

Males display at communal display grounds (leks), where up to 10 males sing from the understory.

Lekking, where males assemble at communal display sites to perform for and court females, occurs in some populations.

During much of the year, males display in open glades near the forest floor, maintaining and defending communal display areas.

In some species a number of males form a communal display group in active competition for females.

They assemble at communal display grounds (the arena or lek), where each bird occupies and defends a site during the day; occasionally, an "apprentice" male may be permitted to share an occupied site.

Harry fares far better when all she has to do is sigh along to Heart of Glass, her sculpted Studio 54 pout making a welcome return as the crowd will her along with a communal display of arm-waving that might well have wafted the storm clouds away.

Although pairs separate from the flock to nest, they periodically rejoin communal displays during breeding.

Examples among birds include manakins (Pipridae), cocks of the rock (Rupicola; see photograph), and some grouse (Tetraonidae); similar communal displays occur in some giant species of fruit flies (Drosophila) found in the mountains of Hawaii.

In spring the dunnock takes part in communal displays in which two or more birds hop around in vegetation or on the ground, flick their wings, and utter staccato calls.

There is a popular tendency to think of primitive animals (in a phylogenetic or descent sense) as lacking "elaboration"; i.e., that the animals of earlier geological periods had simpler displays or perhaps lacked crests or pheromones or elaborate communal displays in comparison with their present-day counterparts.

It has been suggested that many courtship displays and mating systems, particularly those involving polygamous systems with communal displays in a common courtship area, have an epideictic function that is, they provide information as to the number of like individuals in a locality.