When horses are at liberty, the stallion will dance a running a duet with a young mare for days, until she reaches the peak of her oestrus and stands still to receive him.
Flamingos parade en masse while displaying their necks and swivelling their beaks.
Blue-footed boobies hop from side to side to show off their spectacular blue feet.
King penguins perform a magnificent spiralling choreography at the start of the breeding season.
Japanese cranes and Australian brolgas bow, flap their wings and leap in a poignant courtship dance.
Seahorses swim side by side for days — either holding tails or anchoring to plants and ferris-wheeling in unison.
Peacock spiders shake their derrieres like samba dancers.
Pufferfish create geometrically patterned stage sets in the sand on the ocean floor.
They dance by flapping their little fins to move the sand across the patterns.
The Manakin bird does a side-slide dance that beats Michael Jackson’s any day.
An Ostrich entrances his hen by crouching, flapping and rotating his head.
Benedict Arnold 