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 OFFLINE | The ethologist studying animals finds that when one bird spreads its wings and displays a certain red feather the other animal goes into the mating dance. This could happen anytime the ethologist spreads the other animal's wings or even displays a picture of such a wing with the red feather on it. Nevertheless, the dancing animal is not expressing about the sexual intercourse context but behaving in one and it is bodily getting ready to engage in intercourse. Even if the ethologist shows only a picture, the animal is not responding to a picture. There is no such level of responding and of course the red feathers are not normally displayed except in a behavior context leading to sexual intercourse. Thus the fact is artificial (observed by us in the sense of en#1) that the mating dance could be done at any time and in the absence of the sexual behavior context. |
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