Lesson 1: When choosing gifts for your date, remember that girls prefer flowers to piles of fungus-ridden dung.
You know how some movies or TV shows are painful to watch because you see that a character is making some awkward mistake and you just know it will end horribly? This BBC video is similar. I kept thinking, "No, Mr. Vogelkop Bowerbird! Don't give her that! You'll never get mated!" But, honestly, I was thinking that at the flower-power fellow. Foolishly, I'd assumed that the lesson here was going to be something along the lines of, "Birds like things humans find repugnant and isn't that interesting."
Instead, the lesson turns out to be, "Everybody poops, but that doesn't mean they want to receive it as a gift."
VIDEO: Inside the Love-Den of the Vogelkop Bowerbird, BBC Life
Image courtesy the BBC, via Adam Abu-Nab
