What are the advantages and disadvantages for males of having an elaborate courtship ritual and colouration compared with fighting over females

The merits include;
It's easy for a female to choose desired traits based on coloration and mastery of ritual in place of invoking a fight.

It gives the female more options to choose from as there are fewer deaths occasioned by fighting of males

Disadvantage
It isn't necessary true that a male with ritual ceremony mastery is the best among the pack.

It depends on the surface of the levels. the rougher the surface, the greater is the frictional force. for rougher surfaces, you would need to exert greater force to move the object. the concept is that, you must overcome the frictional force in order to bring the object into motion. this is the reason why we add lubricants to the joints so they could easily move. this answer was on

Volcanoes make new rocks so not ahotspots are the the stuff that makes volcanoes mid atlantic ridge(mar cause i’m lazy) is a constructive plate boundary so it makes sense that new rocks would be found near it, also the mar is in the middle of the ocean so it fits the description deep ocean trench, umm, there’s no ocean trenches to where you’re goingso the mar is most likely the answeri wouldn’t trust me but hey why not