Thread 5042851

>male birds that do specific dances or get colorful feathers to attract the opposite sex
Do female birds actually give a shit about these things? What even is the point of wanting to produce with other members of your species for these weird specific features that don't benefit to anything in terms of survival?

>>5042851 (OP)
OP pretending to be stupid to bait people into replying like he genuinely doesn't know the answer to his own make-believe question.

>>5042851 (OP)

In jacanas and other shorebirds its the female who's larger and more flamboyant

>>5042851 (OP)
It's beneficial to survival because living with a handicap (like stupid feathers or bright colors) equates to excess strength. The bird is so good at surviving that it can live with a handicap.

>>5042851 (OP)
Pigmentation and vascularization are very sensitive systems, so focusing on them is a relatively easy way to identify mate health, which pressures for robustness rather than mere survival. Then once that behavior is developed, variations that stimulate whatever mechanism is behind it become adaptive for sexual selection, subverting the actually practical criteria until what >>5042901 mentions takes over; the mapping of compensation for over-pronounced signaling features is itself imperfect but likely significant to the survivability of female offspring.

>>5042901
So if autism made men glow in the dark women would love me?

Do the males being obvious and colorful help with distracting predators away from the female and the nest in this specific type of sexual dimorphism?