. The study of animal life . lar motions with his body tilted over; she, all excitement,lowers her head and raises her body, so that it is almost draw nearer, she moves slowly under him, he crawling overher head, and the mating is accomplished. The males are quarrel-some and fight withone another ; but afterwatching hundredsof seemingly terriblebattles between themales of twelve differ-ent species, the obser-vers were forced to theconclusion that theyare all sham affairsgotten up for the pur-pose of displaying be-fore the females, whocommonly stand by in-terested se
. The study of animal life . lar motions with his body tilted over; she, all excitement,lowers her head and raises her body, so that it is almost draw nearer, she moves slowly under him, he crawling overher head, and the mating is accomplished. The males are quarrel-some and fight withone another ; but afterwatching hundredsof seemingly terriblebattles between themales of twelve differ-ent species, the obser-vers were forced to theconclusion that theyare all sham affairsgotten up for the pur-pose of displaying be-fore the females, whocommonly stand by in-terested seemed cruel sportat first to put eight orten males (of Dendry-phantes capitatus) intoa box to see them fight,but it was soon apparent that they were very prudent little fellows,and were fully conscious that he who fights and runs away willlive to fight another day. In fact, after two weeks of hard fightingwe were unable to discover one wounded warrior. . Thesingle female (of Phidippus viorsitans) that we caught during the. Fig. 23.—Two male spiders (^Zygoballus hettini)fighting. (After G. W. and E. G. Peckham.) I04 TJie Study of Animal Life PART I
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