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The dance ritual that some birds (usually in the tropics) do is part of what is called "courtship" - behaviors or patters that eventually lead to copulation. The reason birds and other animals have such showy displays lies, as all behavior does, in evolution. Darwin called the competition between males and the choosiness of the females sexual selection.

Courtship behaviors are an evolutionary byproduct of sexual selection. In the case of birds, the females choose which males will be their mates in what is specifically called intersexual selection. This type of selection ensures that only colorful plumes and other physiological features are passed on to the next generation, as dictated by the females. Usually the features that are most attractive to the females are masculine. So the dance gives the male birds the opportunity to flaunt their impressive features in hope that the female will accept him as a mate.

To a lesser degree, the dance shows the female that the male is physiologically ready to reproduce. Some male birds have a large parental investment - time and resources it must spend from caring to the egg to nurturing offspring. If the father fails to put in adequate parental investment (species in which the males have a large parental investment) the duty becomes the mother's. This could lead the mother to either neglect her offspring or herself.

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Strength in numbers. Also when they fly in a v pattern it reduces wind resistance on the birds behind the bird on point.

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they use courtships to mate and reproduce

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to attrach a female or a male bird

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To attract a mate.

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