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A short scene showing the courtship dance of the as yet unnamed species from the southwest of Western Australia. These dances go on for quite a while, one of the scenes I filmed lasts for over 15 minutes. Often these encounters end with the female attacking the male but I have not seen a single male being injured, they seem quite comfortable with whatever the females are throwing at them. In one of the scenes I captured the male even munches away on an insect while courting the female. There is

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