A week ago Saturday, an alarm broke the pre-pre-dawn darkness. A big day lay ahead — very big — with little time to spare. I unzipped my bag and sat up in my hammock. The agenda was to dress, break ...

GRAND ISLAND Central Nebraska is already well-known for its sandhill cranes, but now people are coming from across the country to watch the mating rituals of prairie chickens. This is the first year ...

Love is complicated enough for humans, but in the animal kingdom, courtship can get downright bizarre as you’re about to see in the videos of the strangest animal mating rituals below. From underwater ...

The public can observe the prairie chicken mating displays at the Glacial Ridge and Rydell National Wildlife Refuges near Crookston, Minn. By special arrangement, the public can observe these annual ...

GLYNDON, Minn. -- The lights of a city 15 miles away are still glowing on the horizon when rustling is heard in the prairie grass. Soon darkness will give way to a spectacular show. It's the annual ...

Some species use sound or auditory signals in their mating rituals. This could be a song in birds, vocalizations in frog species or whale songs. Some animals combine auditory and visual cues. In ...

GLYNDON, Minn. - The lights of a city 15 miles away are still glowing on the horizon when rustling is heard in the prairie grass. Soon darkness will give way to a spectacular show. It's the annual ...