Sign up today . For all the great free member benefits, click here . How to Be a Better Flirt Scientifically, flirting is serious business, but it's also just plain fun. Why We Flirt Birds do it.
Bees do it.
In their way, even educated fleas do it. Think of flirting as a silent but very visual language that creatures great and small use to indicate their interest in a particular member of the opposite sex. We flirt to announce attraction and to signal availability. It is a universal language spoken by all animals as well as humans, a kind of self-promotion advertising our fitness for a relationship and, sooner or later, for mating. Scientists now know that we flirt by trying out our sexual sundries without having to go all the way with every potential prospect it's pretty much risk-free.