Female Peacock Spiders Underwhelmed By Disco-Dancing Suitors. Male spiders use complex movement, vibrations, and color to win the ladies over, a new study confirms.

Tale of the Peacock: At a singles cocktail party, the ending is often predictable. A female may choose a male from several because he is attractive.

Whenever a male peacock fans his tail, he shakes it at a rate of 26 times a second, creating a pressure-wave that literally rattles the female’s head for attention. A version of this story ran ...

The standard belief is that the peacock does his magnificent feather display specifically to attract the female peahen. The peacock can raise the long feathers of the train into a glorious ...

Weapons, dances—and murder? Inside the wild world of bug courtship. Stag beetles have their sumo matches. Female fireflies who murder their mates.

We discovered that the splendid peacock spiders accelerated at 127.8 m/s² – more than twice as fast as the previous highest known acceleration in jumping spiders.

Rowdy peacock caught after six months of ruling the roost – using female birdsong Sara Odeen-Isbister Published April 21, 2024 11:03pm Updated April 22, 2024 12:19pm ...

Measuring no bigger than 0.2 inches (0.5 centimeters), the sparklemuffin peacock spider is, arguably, one of the cutest spiders around. These jumping spiders were discovered as a new species in 2015.

We discovered that the splendid peacock spiders accelerated at 127.8 m/s² – more than twice as fast as the previous highest known acceleration in jumping spiders.