The activities recorded were
courtship, foraging, roaming, agonistic display/ chase, and the number of mating attempts.
We considered active males those who showed intense
courtship during more than 30 min.
Similarly, exposure of male garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) to females of different sizes causes them to alter their
courtship criteria (Shine et al., 2006).
There is no discussion of the actual
courtship, engagement, or marriage.
We describe the extraordinary
courtship behavior of the gomphocerine grasshopper Stenobothrus clavatus Willemse, 1979, which combines many acoustic and visual elements and therefore represents a model case for an extremely elaborate
courtship display: among all Stenobothrus species known, S.
Perhaps the most compelling chapter in this fine study is Blauvelt's exploration of
courtship. As novels and sentimental fiction became increasingly popular, young women's personal courting dramas became inextricably linked to the larger world of print culture.
The book notes dutifully declare that Supreme
Courtship is fiction and any resemblance to real persons is purely coincidental, but one of the book's charms is selecting the real life politicians and show business personalities who most resemble the book's characters.
Birth of the cool: Roslin, the new chick at Edinburgh's penguin enclosure; The gift of love: A male Gentoo with a
courtship offering
In
courtship, he displays these patches for a female and vibrates his palps, appendages that stick out near his mouth.
He finds Michael Schoenfeldt's work on literary
courtship particularly amenable to his own thesis, but his argument is most strongly buttressed by a lively and imaginative engagement with the work of Kenneth Burke (1897-1993), a remarkably original but now sadly neglected theorist.
In Holy Ambition: Rhetoric,
Courtship, and Devotion in the Sermons of John Donne, Brent Nelson turns his critical gaze from cultural studies to rhetoric.
MANSFIELD PARK, JANE AUSTEN'S PROBLEM NOVEL, shares one of its problems--the
courtship plot--with the other five novels that Austen published.
