Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.
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Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays.
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.
Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.
The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.
To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.
Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.
This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.
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