#Courtship Dance

[sixteenseveredhands]

Skeletorus Spider: this species of jumping spider was named for its distinctive skeleton-like pattern

The scientific name for this species is Maratus sceletus; it's a type of peacock spider that has been found only in the southeast region of Queensland, Australia.

The species was discovered by a grad student named Madeline Girard back in 2015. For obvious reasons, she decided to give it the colloquial name "skeletorus."

The black-and-white appearance is very unusual, as male peacock spiders are generally known for their colorful/flamboyant features.

According to Dr. Jürgen Otto, who co-authored the article in which this species was first described:

[Skeletorus] looks dramatically different from all other peacock spiders known to date, making me think that this group is perhaps much more diverse than we had thought.

Peacock spiders are also famous for their charming and elaborate courtship dances, which often differ slightly from one species to the next. You can watch footage of the mating dance for this particular species here.

Sources & More Info:

Sci News: Two New Species of Peacock Spiders Discovered in Australia

Peckhamia Scientific Journal: Two New Peacock Spiders of the Calcitrans Group from Southern Queensland (PDF)

National Geographic: Behold Sparklemuffin and Skeletorus, New Peacock Spiders

Animal Diversity Web: Genus Maratus

#arachnology #jumping spider #cute bugs #skeletorus spider #maratus #sceletus #peacock spider #australia #queensland #wildlife #courtship dance #cw spiders #spooky #biodiversity #animals #arthropods

[jaubaius]

Hese blue manakin males appear to be competing to impress a female.

What they are actually doing is coordinating to support one alpha male to achieve his goal. They sacrifice their own interests to help a ‘friend’, thus the term “wingman” was born.

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#lance‑tailed manakins #birds #amazing #nature #cute animals #wingman #courtship dance

[charsawdeath]

Speaking of Dinosaur from the other fic in this pile, here's another reference, this time to Courtship!

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Only ONE SINGLE DAY of sappy Lovers and Sentimental acts can be shown within the Lust Ring and that happens to be-

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A nod to Fizzarolli's dislike of blood btw

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I TRIED making Asmodeus act like a form of animals from a Rooster strutting his feathers (shimmering them) to a stallion (pawing the ground) a cross between the bellows of a Bull/Ram (in the guttural rumbling/purring noise he makes) much like some birds do to attract mates(Puffing up his feather/furs)

#written #my work #ao3 #asmodeus helluva boss #helluva boss asmodeus #asmodeus x fizzarolli #helluva boss fizz x ozzie #helluva boss fizzarolli #courtship dance #animal behavior #helluva boss

[mrsmountainchicken]

Courtship Dance

As a male, you don't have it easy in the spider world. If you send mixed signals to a potential mate, you might end up dead.

It seems to be all about advertising yourself with vigor and confidence!

— Wolf Spider's Courtship Dance by Mark Wilkes on YouTube.

What may look like dancing is actually a complex message our boy is sending to what he hopes to be the future mother of his children. The message itself boils down to:

"I am not prey! I am you, but male!"

Unlike jumping spiders, the dance a wolf spider performs is much more about vibrations than the spectacle of their movements. Today, I learnt that these vibrations are species-specific. How incredible is that?!

Look at the little guy above giving his best!

#spiders #courtship dance #arachnids #wolf spider #Youtube

[subbalakshmisastry]

Attractive Courtship Display Of Golden Pheasants / Chrysolophus pictus I...

#youtube #Golden Pheasant #Rainbow Pheasant #Courtship Dance #Courtship Display #Chinese Pheasant #Bird #Brightly Coloured Bird #Face Mask #Mysore Zoo #Animals In Mysore Zoo #Mating Dance #Courtship Behaviour #Long Tail #Chrysophus pictus

[blackkatdraws2]

The narrator and the ugly ahh protagonist [Blank Scripts AU/non-canonical]

#tsp blank scripts au #non canonical art #shitpost #this is fr how people be drawing narrator and stanley.... narrator being way too handsome and stanley as a background character naahh.. #honestly i just drew him like that because it was funny but then i got too attached to it like an idiot aghh #The Narrator (Black) is an entirely different made-up species originating from the ancient Arctic north #long before the Crystal Empire was even built. #The old one's tail only ever wags whenever Stanley is around. You can clearly tell who the favorite pony is #Imagine Black showing Stanley courtship behaviors like rolling on his back #showing his stomach to him #sliding his wings on his chin #trotting like a dancing mare around him #and generally just showing off to show Stanley that he's interested in him... #But because of the species difference (and because Stanley is one airheaded fella) #Stanley doesn't understand what Black is doing other than he looks beautiful while doing it. #the narrator (Black) can read Stanley's thoughts btw #so he knows what that silly guy is thinking about :) #tsp au #the stanley parable #the stanley parable ultra deluxe #mlp #my little pony #mlp oc #my little pony oc #tsp #tspud #tsp narrator #narrator tsp #stanley tsp #tsp stanley

[gaiussleechtank]

Arthur taught Merlin how to dance properly, not that Merlin can't dance already but "swinging your arms and legs like a deranged chicken" is apparently not appropriate for court.

So, in the quiet of Arthur's chambers, Arthur teaches Merlin how to lead a dance, both humming songs as they stubble through the steps.

Eventually the awkwardness dissolved and both men found it rather pleasant to dance with each other. Obviously ignoring the sexual that is so thick you could probably give yourself a concussion with.

So when the time comes for Merlin to show off his skills, it's suffice to say that everyone is impressed.

Except Arthur.

Who is seething with jealousy of the possessive kind.

After watching a few too many servant girls have their feet swept away, Arthur yanks Merlin from the dance floor and drags him to a closed off room that can still hear the music.

Merlin is a bit peeved at Arthur actions thus far, but when he realises why Arthur did what he did, Merlin can't help but smile. He steps forward and holds pit his hand.

Arthur takes it and they spend the rest of the evening dancing in that room with the mutual understanding there was more to tonight than just dancing.

#Oh and when they announce their courtship its very publicly at a feast and neither can kepo their hands off of each other #merlin #bbc merlin #bbc merthur #arthur pendragon #merthur #Dancing #headcanon

[tartaeya]

zhongluc nation is this anything

#zhongluc #genshin impact #my art #“zhongluc nation” there's 8 of us what am i saying #he is showing him his courtship dance to the tune of driftveil city

[loupy-mongoose]

Peak art actually

Pressure's off, I'll never surpass this! I've reached my maximum potential. XD

#kaleleaf1012 #ask #art #Doing some weird fairy ritual #Maybe a courtship dance? #Either way #I'm sure nothing good will come of it. #Except their faces. #Their faces are pretty good. #((Just needed to fill the space lol))

[unknownfrom34]

Courtship

For @muzzleroars

On this post, I write a MichaelxV2 fanfic. Fluff writing about the Angelic courtship dance performed by a robot so I decided to be like this part. (Where they dance. Haha. I hope you won't mind 😅) Plus pronouns for V2 will be He/Her btw. I had edited out last minute edits before posting this so I hope you'll like it.

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"...And V1 had done that? To your brother?"

Michael nodded. He couldn't and still can't, believe that Raphael had helped but it made his already literally rotting heart flutter with reassurance that he tried.

"Yes indeed. He had helped the Machine to court Gabriel into marriage but I am surprised that he helped regardless."

"It must've been shocking." V2 tilted her head to the right.

Michael laughed gently as he placed his hand on his helm, a finger tenderly tracing the cracks. "I can't ridicule him for doing this." he spoke after a moment, still tracing the helmet's cracks mindlessly. "He is my brother and helping others is in our nature."

Michael finally removed his hand and turned towards the red automation. A mirror. A near perfect mirror of her processor painted as red as blood as the protector of peace. Blood tubes painted blue to ensure that he stood out of V1, the newly risen robotic angel and symbol of his brother's love Gabriel willing to give.

V2's processers is recording her findings on culture of Heaven. She had learned a lot from Gabriel in Fraud Layer she lived in, only from what he had been told from his perspective but when offered to see it for herself. It is truly a place of Paradise for what's left of Humanity to go to. Free of pain and suffering and found something she had been lacking in her making: Peace.

Still, the courtship dance is one of the private parts of Heaven over an millennia after Lucifer had fallen down with many other angels as it is considered a taboo by the Father. He had seen them prior to the former banished into Hell itself. The Hell that she and V1 had been born into when New Peace was established.

Curiously a few of his eight wings twitched slightly with another question in her hard drives as Michael took a sip from a cup provided by Raphael, due to a rotting jaw that seemingly be made of light gold, he was recommended to only drinks now.

"May I ask you again, Michael?" "Please do," He accepted, "What is it on your mind, Machine?"

He hesitated. "Have you ever been courted before?"

Michael nearly spit out his drink.

"I beg your pardon?" "Has anyone ever court you before?"

Michael went silent for a moment. He placed a palm on his exposed ribcage adorn with colorful radiant jewels and chains of sliver and gold.

"No." He answered honesty. "I have not been courted by any an angel nor human, Machine." he shook his head lightly. "Many had looked at and up to me as a leader chosen to lead His people and man kind throughout these centuries." He placed his hand again on his helm with a hint of flustered and nonsenses of the question. Turning away from V2. "Many of them knew this is an forbidden act to do, and even worse, the Prince of Heaven in place of Lucifer's and the Lord. I never even try to do courtshiping ritual."

V2 looked at him for a moment.

"Michael." V2 said finally, with a little bit of worry but confidence so little in his machinal voice. "Do you think that I..." Michael turned to look at her once again. "That I... that I do the heavenly courtship dance?"

"You?" Michael could almost chuckle but it was raspy due to a ruined larynx, it was ruined due to the event had had tried to sever his Light in attempt to show his loyalty to Lord he had long-since searched for... and Failed. He will save that story for later yet the machine like V2 could do the ritual is rather funny to him but...

But since Gabriel fell, since V2 was rebuilt and since, for him too much to bare; Even tried binding his brother before reason was struck into him by Gabriel's words, even in Hellish language, they still reached him and even worsen to do to him, he had tried to get him to see V1's corruption by having V2 himself as his date but... All of those failures, taken away his pride but made room for love, humble and a door open for a way for his own sins to be forgiven.

The plan to "open his brother's eyes" had backfired when feelings of this machine, the same way as Gabriel had and... To be honest when he looked back on it. He guessed that's what the race of Man calls "Petty."

Nonetheless, Michael had learned more of V2 being a replacement, ruined and will perish one day like himself will too. He could... He could watch her try. And if he was courted, well, only he will decide to tell or not tell the masses of Heaven.

"Well," He began to say, thoughtfully. "I cannot why not."

V2's optic seem to opened up a little, stars in his eyes with wings flutter a little behind him as he stood upright and then hand over his metallic abdomen and bowed with another arm extended out from him.

Head rose up and then one foot back and then he jumped into the air in a twirl, golden glowing wings flared out in display and then sticks the landing on two feet like a ballerina. Silent amazement resonating in Michael as he watched on. On the right and left of four appendages each. The right bottom one twitched slightly before one after another followed suit going up and then on the upper left appendage repeated this going downwards.

Then them both do it upwards and downwards before crouching down on fours as eight of them gone together to make it seem like they had only one pair of two wings before slowly raises up on two feet once again. Before too long, the eight wings came back but yellow faded into sapphire blue as two of each go downward and then soon out on display.

"This is..." She started to say, "This is so confusing to me, how do you all do it?" Michael, watching the progress had come to an metaphorical halt, placing his drink down and then stand up. He was feeling ridiculous for explaining this but he will feel even more not doing so. He said "Allow me." simply but his voice is gentler by the sound of it.

In his own display of wings, his four wings unfolded in brilliant shades and gradients of pinks, purples, magentas, and violets for a machine or soul to see. The wings then came around and covering Michael slowly and purposely to insight curiosity from the latter and then spun away before he unfolded the wings and then dashed towards V2 before stopping in front of him. The helm barely reached his ribcage and Michael is staring down at them before crouching down, wings flapping down to touch the floor before he stood up and hands grabbing onto forearms (so not to tear the skin and flesh off) after placing them behind his back and circled around him gracefully and leisurely.

V2, stunned but mesmerized, watching the head chief prince closely with wings behind her gently lowered down with her CPU was recording this in wonder before abruptly disappeared in a flash of light. Her optic blinked and looked to her left and right before something shines behind him.

Before he could turn to see, a pair of hands quickly covered his optic and wings enveloped around her as feeling of a helm lightly touching the surface of her own as his head was lifted up a little. Hands then removed themselves from his optic to see Michael roving above him, allowing the small robot to bathe in the glowing lights of his wings.

Both of them lost in a void of a colorful light.

Eight wings of his own twitch with surprise softly, blue began to share a gradient of light pink as he looked up at the Prince of Heaven before one hand lightly taking a hand, a hand that is nearly identical to V2's left one before raising it up and then spun the peace-keeping machine around with trails of neon blue and pink following behind her as four wings flown away steadily.

He kept spinning them to his right before letting go and catching V2 as a leg was raised up while he leaned backwards before lifting upward, lightly urged by a hand on her back with her wings fanning out as she was brought close to his chest.

Feet kept going in a dance of wings of beauty and grace for as long as it could go, a ritual was in fact an success by this point.

Midway, Michael had his hand on V2's back again and the other holding his hand, fingers intertwined, as they looked at each other.

"You have a surprising amount of grace for a machine." Michael commented, looking at his optic with interest. "Oh yeah?" V2 chuckled lightly. "Well, you've got a surprising amount of bugs for an angel."

Michael chuckled at the joke. She wasn't wrong but it was good to laugh once in a while.

"And the expecting tact."

They then spun around as they let go, wings behind them before they flapped, neon and natural light coming off from both pairs and soon they came back together with hands holding onto them and then twirled as they held on. Wings made from metal and divine light flapped and fanned out before fluttering and danced on their accord as their feet had became accustomed to the ritual.

They continued on in their rhythm of the heart beats and fans spinning before letting go.

At last, they bowed to one another.

"So, this is what the courtship dance is like." V2 commented as he turned to look at his wings, colors fading into the tips of his wings as they went from pink to blue and finally going back to default yellow. "Dance with someone you are close to."

Michael laughed, both lightly and worryingly as he tilted his head. "It is, Machine." he added. He is worried.

Someone will know that he had been courted and even worse, it was with this machine but they are in his private quarters, the chambers that was once... Once Lucifer's. Still, since they had danced the ritual here, this could be where a little white secret could lie until he will confess this sin. This sin that made him happy.

Michael cleared his throat gently as his wings folded and soon faded from existence. "W-Well, I enjoyed our time together." he said as his fist was placed behind his back and closed his eyes. "Please," He wanted V2 to leave back to his apartment but he hesitated. "It is getting late, do you think you can travel back to the Eighth Layer?"

V2 looked at the pillar that overlooks outside, stars have already decorated the skies as night time has begun and below were a small city and villages built since the Uproar after the Father's death. "I will but-" V2 turned over to Michael, with another question in mind. "Do you think that I could stay here, but for the night?" he asked as he used his hand to rub his arm. "I haven't seen an actual night like this." No. No you will not.

That's what he wanted to say.

"Of course, but only for one night... V2." He answered this instead.

V2 light up a little before bowing her head. "Thank you, Michael."

Michael bowed his head as well. "You are welcome, I hope you will enjoy the night." he said as he watched him sitting down and crossed his legs on one of many luxurious pillows to watch at the skies with wonder and silent joy.

Michael just wanted to offer her a room of her own but stopped himself. "Have a good night, V2." He bided good night before he turned and then headed towards his own resting chambers as V2 bids him a good evening as well.

Oh God Almighty, what is he even doing?

He had offered the machine to sleep over in the Eighth Sphere of Heaven for the night and only for the night. And all after that ritual of courtship!

He moved a fabric leading into his room away and letting it fall behind him as his head looked at it. He turned to his left arm and noticed new flowers have grown from the wounds. He must've accidentally scratched it during that dance as he carefully recognized them.

Peace lilies, cosmos and apple blooms.

No doubt this was related to the dance.

Michael turned to the fabric once again and peaked to see V2, still there right where he left her, watching the view and a dim lunar light before letting the fabric drop once again. It was the first time he had participated the ritual and he hoped it would also be the last yet.

His wings made from glass and metal, stamina long enough to keep up with him and the look in the optic. An angel of iron and blood he had greeted as an plan to restore Gabriel yet he could've known that this robot...

Never meant to be an replacement. Striped of purpose. Failed in securing something far from her reach. Stoic. Intelligent.

V2 was just like himself. He could come to talk to Raphael for advise on this newfound friendship but still on the same matter, maybe he could ask him if they could dance one more time before turning in for the night.

#Ultrakill #Fanfic #Not my oc #Michael #V2 #Fluff #Writing #Courtship #Dance #Archangel #Robot #Angelic bird courtship dance #Rise and Fall AU

[ashleyfableblack]

A bit of art love for my favourite royal inter-species couple and a moment in time from The Eternal Courtship- their first outing as an official couple at the first Grand Gala of then Princess Twilight's New Canterlot.

Chrysalis extended a hoof to Twilight with a flourish. Twilight looked from the pitted black chitin to the gleaming emerald eyes and blushed. Though her serpentine eyes held an unusual and inviting warmth, the queen's fanged grin was wolfish, inviting much more lurid pursuits. Almost demurely, she reached out and placed her hoof in Chrysalis's.

The towering queen drew her close and began swaying to the rhythm of the royal orchestra. Twilights blush intensified. "I'm afraid I'm not much of a dancer" she gestured with a dismayed flit of her ears towards the assembled nobility "not like them, anyways." Chrysalis smirked. "Then you won't dance like them." Taking Twilight close against her barrel, she rose to stand on her hind legs. Easily a head taller than even Queen Novo and three times the size of any pony present, Chrysalis had loomed menacingly over the other guests. Now, almost twice as tall again, she towered like an obsidian spire, clothed in the alien regalia of a forgotten era. Twilight laughed in as much surprise as joy. She was like a rose-hued banner now, trimmed in gold and lace, dangling from her dark lover's grip. "You aren't one of them, anyways. You never have been." Chrysalis's hoof supported her back with a surprisingly gentle, yet firm embrace. "It's one of the things I love about you." If Twilight's blush had been intense before, it was furious now. Her wings pressed against the queen's forelimb, making to extend and lift herself. She smiled somewhat awkwardly. "Eheh. I'm afraid I'm not much of a flyer, either." Chrysalis extended her own insectoid wings. She lifted them from the gilded carpet with an almost musical hum of their rapid fluttering. "Let someone else be your wings, then." Twilight's eyes went wide as their eyes locked. 'I don't think I know how..." Silently, the large almond-shaped violent pools pleaded. Somehow, in the utterly alien gaze of Chrysalis dual-irised serpent slits, she found reassurance, understanding and the answer she needed. "Then we will learn together." Their lips touched. Cool chitin glided against warm lavender softness, framed by the changeling's fangs. With a broadening smile, Twilight allowed herself to finally let go. She exhaled. With the sigh of love accepted, she melted into her bughorse's embrace and rested her cheek against her crownless queen's barrel. Let them gawk. Let them stare. Let them judge and covet. Their vampire. Their nightmare. Her love.

#my art #mlp au #mlp g4 #my litte pony #twisalis #queen chrysalis #twilight sparkle #love #lgbtq #lesbian #interracial couples #dancing #romance #romantic #couple #traditional art #eternal courtship #ashleyfableblack

[icespur]

(I apologize if someone already had this idea)

So Akechi's Metaverse attire gives him a bird like mask and his codename is "Crow".

I propose two funny ShuAke scenarios....

Did you know that birds have a special mating ritual? Where they dance?

So 1: Akechi embracing his codename and performing a Crow mating dance to woo AkiRen

Or----

Akiren/Joker performing a literal Crow dance in front of Akechi for either pure funzies just to see his reaction if they are just Friends/Frienemies

Or the Romance route, Joker having feelings for Akechi, does a dance because "I will confess my feelings in your language!"

And Akechi is just---

"What the hell are you doing?"

The rest of the Phantom Thieves are equally bewildered, frozen, just silently in the background while watching their leader Unapologetically make a fool of himself, dancing in the middle of what was originally a battle.

#persona 5 royal #persona 5 #persona 5 joker #ren amamiya #akira kurusu #goro akechi #akeshu #shuake #akeshu hc #courtship #mating dance

[riessene]

are you impressed, nash? @nyehilismwriting

#project hadea #my art #my edits #nash #shrike #like if you are impressed by his sick skills reblog if his courtship dance is working on you

[tenderanarchist]

She is like a tropical bird to me

#I am wooed by her singing and elaborate courtship dances #punk #amyl and the sniffers #Youtube

[halfyearsqueen]

listen.... dance with her

#she loves dancing #she's always loved dancing #like the best way to get on her good side is to offer to dance with her at balls / etc #even if it is just an excuse to pay court to her directly #which is a whole other meta bc like. the courtships as long as they are relatively harmless and more courtly love esque are things she #definitely enjoys