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courtshippariade (fr.); Balz (ger.)

  • Behaviour employed in order to attract sexual partners and prepare the act of sexual reproduction. (HWB)
    courtship
    1340

    [ame hanen baltzen

    Salbuch des Klosters Engelthal [1340]; acc. to Kehrein, J. & Kehrein, F. (1871). Wörterbuch der Weidmannsprache für Jagd- und Sprachfreunde: 50.]

    c. 1350

    Ich hān bī mangem valze Gehalten wol durch hœren

    Hadamar von Laber [ca. 1350]. Die Jagd: vers 212; acc. to Trübner, Deutsches Wörterbuch, vol. 1 (1939): 222-223: 222.

    1639
    idle courtship: the birds and beasts will do it,/To sate their appetites
    Glapthorne, H. (1639). The Tragedy of Albertus Wallenstein: 35.
    1730
    in fluttering courtship [of birds]
    Thomson, J. (1730). The Seasons: 30 (verse 573).
    1744
    in Courtship to their Mates/Pour forth their little Souls
    Thomson, J. (1730/44). The Seasons: 28 (verse 616f.).
    1744

    in Courtship to their Mates/Pour forth their little Souls

    Thomson, J. (1730/44). The Seasons: 28 (Vers 616-7.).

    1774
    every meadow and marsh resounds with their [birds’] different calls, to courtship or to food
    Goldsmith, O. (1774). A History of the Earth and Animated Nature (1776), vol. VI: 26.
    1874

    The males sedulously court the females, and […] take pains in displaying their beauty before them. Can it be believed that they would thus act to no purpose during their courtship? And this would be the case, unless the females exert some choice and select those males which please or excite them most. If the female exerts such choice, all the above facts on the ornamentation of the males become at once intelligible by the aid of sexual selection.

    Darwin, C. (1874). The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, 2nd ed.: 342.

    1931

    die Balzbewegungen des Männchens [der Elster stimmen] in keiner Weise mit denen der männlichen Dohle überein

    Lorenz, K. (1931). Beiträge zur Ethologie sozialer Corviden (Über tierisches und menschliches Verhalten, vol. I, München 1965, 13-69): 28; cf. id. (1939). Vergleichendes über die Balz der Schwimmenten. J. Ornithol. 87, 172-174.

    1982

    courtship Any behavioural interaction between males and females that facilitates mating.

    Lincoln, R.J., Boxshall, G.A. & Clark, P.F. (1982). A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics: 59.

    2011

    Die Balz ist ein Verhalten, das der Anlockung von Geschlechtspartnern und der Vorbereitung des Akts der sexuellen Fortpflanzung dient.

    Toepfer, G. (2011). Historisches Wörterbuch der Biologie. Geschichte und Theorie der biologischen Grundbegriffe, vol. 1: 152.

Webinger, A. (1935). Zu „Balz“ und „balzen“. Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 7, 160-161.