He who sings and dances wins

摘要

Eat your heart out, Beyonce. Even you can't strut your stuff quite like the superb lyrebird. Already known for its singing, it also has a coordinated song-and-dance routine that puts many humans to shame. Superb lyrebirds (Menura novaehollandiae) are the peacocks of Australia: the males have spectacular lyre-shaped tails, which they sashay as they woo females with a song. But it wasn't until Anastasia Dalziell of the Australian National University in Canberra filmed 12 superb lyrebirds in the wild that an important element of their courtship emerged.