Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. An exclusive dance party is raging in the coastal marshes along southern Texas—and it’s coming to an end. However, to score an invite to this event, you have to be an Attwater’s prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri). From February through May, the males of this colorful bird species do a quick-stomping dance and make a low booming sound to attract a mate.  The Attwater’s Prairie Chicken Dance Beginning in late January and into February, male prairie-chickens begin to gather in low grass to start this elaborate courtship display. These “booming grounds” will be the male’s stage for the next few months to show off for the females. Booming grounds are typically found in naturally occurring short grass flats or sometimes artificially maintained areas like dirt roads. The real fun happens from February to May. Every morning, male prairie-chickens grab their spot on a booming ground and dance for hours. They drop their heads to inflate the two large orange …