Classic first date stuff: what men could learn from bowerbirds and their courting efforts

While the bar for boy birds is high, the bar for boy humans seems pretty low - as seen in a trend on TikTok where men are praised by women for doing ... very little

A few nights ago I watched the Netflix nature documentary Dancing with the Birds, about, you guessed it, Abraham Lincoln. Just kidding, it's about dancing birds! This is why I get the big bucks.

While watching the cute profiles of various bird species that all incorporate dance into their mating schemes, I cleverly noticed a running theme. In each case, when it came to the effort of courting and relationships, it was exclusively the male birds that had to put in the work.