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Dancing with the Birds
2019 · Film · documentary · 51 min
Directed by Huw Cordey
Some of the world's most majestic birds display delightfully captivating mating rituals, from flashy dancing to flaunting their colorful feathers.
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> Although this may be considered an unflattering characterization…we have found no evidence to contradict the basic general principle that men will do whatever is required in order to obtain sex, and perhaps not a great deal more.
I just watched "Dancing with the Birds", a documentary on Netflix with great footage of male birds of paradise and bower birds seducing their mates. It strongly underlines the above proposition. These birds perform absurd, bizzare, wildly expensive behaviors for no other purpose but that the chicks dig it. After that the male gets under the female tail feathers, and that's his last contribution to fatherhood.
I think we typically underestimate how much this applies to humans, and how much female political power is also sexual power, and visa versa, for good and ill.
In 2020 I watched these two documentary films about animals and quite liked them:
- My Octopus Teacher
- Dancing with the Birds
If you haven't watched it already, you should check out 'Dancing With The Birds' on Netflix. Maybe I'm biased being a huge bird lover, but man that movie left me in awe. This scene in particular... https://youtu.be/Eg0iSIHIK34