Sentence examples for mating dances from inspiring English sources

In late February the butterflies mature sexually and whirl together in mating dances that can last for 16 hours.

"You don't want to raise any biological eyebrows," said Mr. Buchanan, who researched poses by watching videotaped mating dances of jumping spiders.

Watch the videos here of spiders in mating dances, or carrying egg sacks, or spinning webs, and you can't quite reconcile the intricacy of these activities with the creatures' size and seeming crudity.

See also: Albatross mating dances Albatrosses are colonial, usually nesting on isolated islands; where colonies are on larger landmasses, they are found on exposed headlands with good approaches from the sea in several directions, like the colony on the Otago Peninsula in Dunedin, New Zealand.

One of Europe's longest and most public corporate mating dances -- the merger discussions between Dresdner Bank and Commerzbank -- could continue for a few more weeks.

Re "Mating Dances Go On and On" (July 10): The mating displays of creatures pair-bonded for life whose behavior induces the partners to share "household" and child-rearing duties more equitably would tend to maximize joint longevity and thereby the reproductive success of the pair.

As the party conventions near, it is likely that the mating dance with business will intensify.

Back downstairs, the mating dance of Mr. Partain and Ms. Taylor had also stalled.

(Who does?) But they summon the spirit and subtext of every transcendent mating dance from the Fred-and-Ginger movies.

Indeed, crashing the mating dance of these benignly beaming beetles is quintessential to the idyllic summers of youth.

The mating dance from "Dark Meadow" is just about all I want to see of that portentous piece.