As we don’t have a forum about Nature, I am putting this here to share because it raised a smile on an otherwise grim morning
It seems the females want the best genes for their offspring so test the fitness of potential mates through aggressive boxing matches and by making males chase them by running and hiding.
Is there FannyC ? I couldn’t see it.
Aha! Yes, “Science/Nature/Environment “
Silly me, just looking under “N” 
When I lived in a cottage in Shropshire surrounded by fields, all the hares would come out in the evening.
I would put the children to bed and congratulate myself that they had gone straight off to sleep, but no .... they were hanging out of the window watching the hares! 
FannyCornforth
Sparklefizz that sounds absolutely idyllic
It was.... for a while. But we got snowed in with snow blowing off the fields and covering all the ground floor windows, and had to be dug out by the farmer with a snow plough after 3 days. Again, great fun for the children.
But the isolation really got to me (no computers back then, no mobile phones and no landline either 
), and we needed to move back to civilisation for schools for the children and work for me.
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