Male and female are a pair of flirtatious ones that show off their limbs as far as they can. The blue-footed booby – Sula nebouxii – lives in the islands of the eastern Pacific. During the courtship, the betrothed dance with a perfectly timed movement, displaying their colored legs . To demonstrate their power, males arch their bodies and then their wings, projecting their chest and head upward, while offering their mate material to build the nest. The two boobies, facing each other, perform a few small steps, as if it were a dance, to show that they have a really unusual tonality of legs.
What is the courtship dance of the blue-footed booby like?
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