Courtship behaviors are very similar in all cultures that allow people to choose their own love partners. Unfortunately, myths about courtship behaviors have evolved over the millennia and become a ...

Researchers in Japan have genetically transferred a unique courtship behavior from one fruit fly species to another. By turning on a single gene in insulin-producing neurons, the team successfully ...

Drosophila melanogaster has long served as a prime model for investigating the neural underpinnings of innate social behaviour. Courtship in these flies comprises a series of complex, stereotyped ...

British researchers have discovered that the way crickets rub their wings together to sing — is about the closest an insect can come to a dating app. In many parts of the world, crickets' song is a ...

Fiddler crabs are renowned for their elaborate courtship displays, which involve both visual and vibrational signals that play crucial roles in mate attraction and intraspecific communication. Males ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Males of Drosophila melanogaster exhibit stereotypic courtship behavior through which they assess potential mates by processing multimodal ...

As you begin to see nests full of baby chicks and fledgling birds hopping around in your backyard, you may wonder: how do birds mate? The answer is actually different from what we’ve come to expect as ...

Scientists created an AI tool that detects a fruit fly’s courtship song as it begins and instantly switches off specific brain cells.