- A booby is a seabird in the genus Sula, part of the Sulidae family. Boobies are closely related to the gannets (Morus), which were formerly included in Sula.
- (boobie) A woman's breast
- and gannets, in general, have complex courtship rituals and in the Galapagos, the courtship of the blue-footed booby is most complex.