Most males successfully courted, the female incubated the eggs and nested, and the male went to find other females, while the male acacia birds stayed by the female's side and raised offspring with the female. Acacia birds and animals of the same family have similar physiological characteristics and similar behaviors, why is the male acacia bird so different from other male birds in the concept of love? After careful observation, the man found the reason.
The red-billed acacia bird is a popular bird of interest in zoos, and another reason is that the female and male birds are inseparable.
The acacia bird courtship program is much the same as other birds, and the male birds sing love songs and dance courtship dances to make the female fall in love. The difference is that most of the males are successful in courting, and once the mating period has passed, the females incubate their eggs and nest, and the males find other females.
The acacia bird stays by the female's side and raises offspring with the female. Acacia birds belong to the thrush family, similar physiological characteristics of animals in the same family, similar behavior, why in the concept of love, male acacia birds and other male birds are so different?
The May Acacia bird enters the breeding season. A green-footed female stopped in a tree, and a yellow-breasted male jumped in front of it.
The green foot pole did not care, combing the feathers. The yellow breast hair grows louder and louder. The green-footed pole did not make a chirp. I thought the green foot pole did not hit the yellow chest hair, and the reaction was cold.
But when I looked around, there were eight male birds pouring out their affection to the females, and these females were indifferent, and it was impossible for each female to dislike the suitors!
The yellow chest hair screamed harder and harder, and the green foot pole ignored it.
Finally the green foot pole turned his face to the yellow chest hair and said: You are calling too pitiful, make friends with you.
The yellow chest hair rubbed the neck of the green foot pole with its mouth, and the green foot pole said: Light has no spirit and no substance, what love!
The yellow-breasted hair came to feed the worm into the mouth of the green foot pole, and the green foot pole was still screaming, and the hunger was unbearable!
The yellow breast hair was fed eight times, and the green foot pole was still waiting to be fed. I wondered how a bird with a body length of fifteen centimeters could have such an appetite.
I saw that as the yellow chest hair turned around, the green foot pole spat out the worm it had just swallowed and threw it down the tree, and it was not hungry to tease the other party.
I shifted my gaze to the other acacia birds and found that all the females were teasing the groom. The green foot is testing the other party's loyalty, patience, and physical strength. After the baby hatches out of its shell, most of the rations are retrieved by the male birds.
If it finds a lazy male, or finds a husband with poor foraging ability, or chooses a selfish ghost, the baby may starve to death.
The yellow-breasted hair foraged for food thirty times, and the green foot pole made it look like it was barely full.
The yellow-breasted hair moved closer with joy. The green foot pole did not stop and jumped into the tree. The yellow-breasted hair circles in the pit, picks up the small branches and flies back to the tree, repeatedly pecking at the small branches, and placing the small branches into the pit.
It built a bird's nest according to the will of the green-footed pole, repeatedly pecked at the small branches, and used saliva as a binder to glue the small branches to the pit.
The yellow breast hair was busy from the afternoon until dusk, and only then did it encircle the pit with branches, lay the wall on the ground, and breathe heavily. The green foot pole does nothing, combs the feathers.
The next day I found that the pit had been enclosed with thin branches, and that half of the frame had been completed yesterday evening.
The yellow-breasted hair worked at dawn, and with a haggard face, he rummaged through the straw to pick up materials, transported the straw back to the tree, and then brought mud paste on the branches.
It plucked the bird feathers, moistened them with saliva, glued them to the nest wall, and glided toward the straw pile. The green-footed pole extends its beak to the nest, pulls out the straw stuck to the yellow chest hair and throws it down the tree.
The average yellow breast hair transports the material twice, and half of it is wasted by the green foot pole. The nest was only halfway through three o'clock in the afternoon.
The yellow-breasted hair looks east and west, looking for females who don't need it to build a nest.
But its eyes turned around on the female, and it couldn't find a goal that could be pursued cheaply. All females are making males nest.
The yellow breast hair is also tied to straw and mud to build a bird's nest. I realized the significance of the green foot pole that burdened the yellow chest hair.
Females hold nests and nurse chicks, while males have no burden except for insemination, and the chicks that give birth account for 50% of the genetic genes of both parents.
One party invests more and the other invests less, but the interests are equal, the benefits are equally divided, which is obviously unfair, and the grim fact is that the investment risk is also large, and the investment is heavy responsibility.
For males, there is little investment, there is no need to pay attention, future generations grow up safely is a creation, in case the future generations die, it is easy to pay less, and it will not be cherished.
If it stays by the side of a female, accompanies the female through the process of childbearing, loses many investment opportunities, and will inevitably look for flowers and willows.
Some females have the ability to take care of their cubs, some animals are born independent and do not bother to nurse, and females do not demand the loyalty of males.
Acacia birds hatch six eggs in a nest, if there is no male bird to help, the female bird is difficult to feed so many mouths, but also to resist the predator, the most effective way is to find a long-term stay around the male bird, increase the proportion of investment in the male bird, so that it can not wait to look at it.
On the third day, the yellow chest hair built the nest, and the eyes were covered with blood. After a while, the green foot pole hugged the nest.
The female devotes herself to child rearing and does not live with the male, and many males run away from home at this time.
The yellow breast hair was still with the green foot pole, and the food was brought to the wife's mouth, without boredom or signs of remarriage.
Once the yellow-breasted hair stood on the branch, a female bird made a song to seduce the male. The yellow chest hair admired it and jumped out of the nest.
The yellow-breasted hair could not be unmoved by the beautiful female, but its courage disappeared at the thought of going through the torture of the body and mind, the countless times of food offering, and the exhaustion of half a life to build a new nest.
It is reluctant to leave the home that has put a lot of effort into it! This is the fundamental reason why male acacia birds stay with females for a long time.
The story is adapted from "Red-billed Acacia Bird Expensive Bride Price", the author Shen Shixi, this article and pictures from the Network, the copyright belongs to the original author, if there is infringement, please contact me in time to delete, thank you!
Ring ring wants to say,
The easier it is for people to get things, the less they will cherish them. The female bird deliberately makes it difficult for the male bird, so that the male bird has worked hard to catch up with it, and cherishes this feeling even more. The female is a master of love.
If a man effortlessly chases a woman and the woman is no longer attractive to him, the man will soon lose interest in the woman and will get bored with the woman.
Women should not easily let men chase after him, let him experience ninety-nine eighty-one difficulties and then succeed, maybe the ending will be different.
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