The obvious answer is that the males of those species are the ones who have to attract mates.
However, with my chickens, even when they were completely free ranged, status and personality took precedence over looks.
I have some beautiful roosters, but the moment an average looker with short legs and scrappy feathers came in and either beat their asses or out-macho-ed them, the hens went for him.
The best fighter will be feared by other roosters, so hens are protected from rape in his presence.
Though, if a rooster is a gentleman (rarely rapes, clucks and gives hens food), but low in the pecking order, hens will still like him.
Hens seem to notice things about a rooster's personality: his confidence, the way he carries himself, his maturity.
I've seen roosters lose hens after they began acting timid.
Status is heavily influenced by confidence, since chickens use intimidation tactics like eye contact, low noises, stance, and dancing.
My huge rooster jumped away scared one time. I couldn't even see what was behind him until he moved- a tiny bantam rooster not even the height of his legs.
But that little rooster's ego was the size of the big rooster, and the big rooster's ego was the size of the bantam.
The big one lost solely because he chickened out, pun intended.
IIN that the male gender is always better-looking in the animal kingdom
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The obvious answer is that the males of those species are the ones who have to attract mates.
However, with my chickens, even when they were completely free ranged, status and personality took precedence over looks.
I have some beautiful roosters, but the moment an average looker with short legs and scrappy feathers came in and either beat their asses or out-macho-ed them, the hens went for him.
The best fighter will be feared by other roosters, so hens are protected from rape in his presence.
Though, if a rooster is a gentleman (rarely rapes, clucks and gives hens food), but low in the pecking order, hens will still like him.
Hens seem to notice things about a rooster's personality: his confidence, the way he carries himself, his maturity.
I've seen roosters lose hens after they began acting timid.
Status is heavily influenced by confidence, since chickens use intimidation tactics like eye contact, low noises, stance, and dancing.
My huge rooster jumped away scared one time. I couldn't even see what was behind him until he moved- a tiny bantam rooster not even the height of his legs.
But that little rooster's ego was the size of the big rooster, and the big rooster's ego was the size of the bantam.
The big one lost solely because he chickened out, pun intended.