Tu Bab has long since become a love holiday full of red hearts, romantic candlelit meals and a host of exciting and romantic creative couple activities.
But not only humans court one another very creatively, but also animals.
They sing to each other, dance together and bring gifts as part of their courtship.
In preparation for Valentine's Day, which will take place the day after tomorrow (Thursday), we have collected some of the ways in which animals usually court one another.
close dance
Did you know that cranes tend to live with the same partner throughout their lives?
The couple's form of courtship is full of delicacy, partly through a dance that also exposes them to the environment, which is designed to show that the male is not a coward and that he can survive even when he is visible to predators.
Beyond that, the couple dances in a circle with each other as they touch each other and make sounds while gently skipping.
At the beginning of the process the male also picks up a feather from the ground and throws it towards the female as a gesture of friendship.
An unusual gift
The lynx spiders have found a very special way to acquire the heart of their partner: they hunt an insect for her, wrap it in many webs - and serve the special dish to the potential partner.
At this stage, while the female eats her heart out on the insect, the spider takes the opportunity and safely mates with his busy mate.
A fin whale, in 2009, photo: Getty Images
singing into the distance
The whale, one of the largest animals in the world, found a very unique way to mate, and some would say that it is a miraculous and magical way.
The whales sing songs that can be heard in the water for many kilometers.
In many cases, the songs include hundreds of stanzas and notes, in what is considered one of the most complex services in nature.
The complexity and uniqueness of the songs means that the females are attracted to the male.
kiss me hard
It is interesting to say that Amazon parrots usually rub beak to beak and tongue to tongue during courtship, in what looks like a real kiss.
If the female relents, the male brings her food as a gesture of intimacy and friendship, and this in preparation for their life together.
build your house
In the field of practicality and color in nature, you can bring the male Sochi birds, which build houses for the female.
These are small castles built from all sorts of feathers, cellophane paper and whatever the male finds to beautify his home.
The male even paints the walls using the colors of different grains, all so that the female will like the building and come to live in it.
And what about the encore?
Believe it or not, but the grasshoppers maintain a large repertoire of different songs, all of which have the purpose of courting their mate.
In fact, some species perform 400 different songs, with a song for each phase of the relationship with the female, including the various stages of courtship.
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