Sentence examples for mating ritual in from inspiring English sources

They compare their respective guns, a sort of mating ritual in this brave new world.

That may be because it resembles a stylized mating ritual in which the men lean in aggressively while their partners ecstatically toss their hair and "submit" (above).

Wagner (1945) reported an apparent wing clap, during a mating ritual, in which a male and female pair up and fly together prior to copulation (Wagner 1945).

Males compete for females with an extraordinary mating ritual in which they raise the front part of the body and face each other for long periods of time.

It's a peculiar mating ritual in which tens of thousands of the arthropods take to beaches -- many of them on the East Coast of the United States -- and leave millions of fertilized eggs.

These cruises are planned 3-6 nights after the full moon when the marine worm "Odontosyllis" performs a mating ritual in which the female worm releases eggs then swims to the surface emitting a pale, green luminescence.

Berry, the star of Channel 4's Toast of London, will voice wildlife footage of courting and mating rituals in Wild Love, a sequel to his "documentary" Lone Wolf.

"Green Porno," which has appeared online since 2008 and has also aired on the Sundance Channel on cable TV, is a series of short episodes humorously dealing with mating rituals in the animal kingdom.

We actually watch a slug expel ooze to attract a mate, and later an acrobatic, if slightly stomach-churning, mating ritual that two slugs engage in.

Specifically, the author is observing the nighttime mating ritual of thousands of clacking horseshoe crabs in spring along the Delaware coast.

Josphat is a member of the Kenya Professional Safari Guides Association, which means he knows the Latin names and mating rituals of every animal in his domain.