I've always thought it interesting that among humans (in our culture and time, anyway) flamboyancy in appearance is largely a female thing (jewellery, makeup, long hair, clothes with loud prints and colours and swishy skirts).

Among most other animals, when there's a difference in appearance between genders, it's the other way around. It's the lions that have manes, the peacocks that have plumage, the male robins that have red breasts, the male lightning bugs that light up. In many kinds of birds and bugs and reptiles, it's the males that get to wear the poufy wedding dresses while the females get the plain black suits.

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