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These animals have designs to get the girls

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The male pufferfish goes to elaborate lengths to get females' attention. Photo: BBC One

A guy will go to great lengths to impress a woman. But pufferfish and Bowerbirds make us all look a little cheap.

More than just a bag of air, a male pufferfish works nonstop for a week straight creating an ornate design on the seabed in an apparent move to attract a female and create a safe and elegant place for her to lay eggs.

In Australia, Bowerbirds build elaborate homes with twig-thatched roofs and carefully arranged gifts on the outside in hopes a girl will come a-knocking.

From the BBC
Male Bowerbirds build elaborate homes. Photo: BBC

We at Cult of Mac often salute cutting-edge design, so we couldn’t resist reposting these BBC videos to marvel at these creative creatures and their aesthetically pleasing mating rituals.

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