animal mating

Other researchers who study animal mating behavior were at a loss to understand the new results.

Take a walk on the wild side and learn all about animal mating, dating and cohabitating.

Homophily between mated pairs is common within natural animal mating populations.

Sexual selection by direct and/or indirect benefits as well as sexual conflict determine the evolution of animal mating systems.

Virtually all the terms used to describe animal mating systems were adopted from social anthropology, where they had been devised to describe systems of marriage.

Other specific impacts are on animal mating, spawning, egg and larvae viability, juvenile survival and plant productivity.

Animal Mating Rituals", National Geographic: A reminder you're not the only one in the animal kingdom trying to get a girl (or boy)."

In "The Bear, the Tiger, the Hamster and the Mole," the humor comes out of the accumulated exotic lore of different animal mating habits.

An animal mating . . . Garlic kisses almost suffocated her as his tongue pushed into her mouth in a frenzied simulation of that which would surely follow.

A few minutes ago, he had lost himself in the most earth-shattering lovemaking of his life, and now Catherine wanted him to walk away as if they had shared nothing more than animal mating.

These festivals correspond to the cycles of Nature (animal mating, seasons, planting and harvest) and the cycles of the Sun (Solstices and Equinoxes) .

Tomorrow at 1 P.M., "With Love From Your Significant 'Otter,' " a Valentine's Day program for children and adults, featuring talks about animal mating and crafts.

Repeat DNA sequence variation also arises during cell divisions in non-germinal cells of the body, where the influences of chemical agents are more easily studied than in the longer animal mating experiments.

Among her answers, based partly on her own research and on her analysis of animal mating and women’s sexuality, is that female desire may be dictated — even more than popular perception would have it — by intimacy and emotional connection.

Jerome the Bear (Jon Favreau) suggests that they teach Griffin their animal mating techniques, but Joe the Lion (Sylvester Stallone) protests, reminding them that it's against the animal code to talk to humans.

In a burst of new studies that are destroying many of the most deeply cherished notions about animal mating habits, researchers report that even among species assumed to have faithful tendencies and to need a strong pair bond to rear their young, infidelity is rampant.

While there are close analogies between animal mating systems and human marriage institutions, these analogies should not be pressed too far, because in human societies, marriages typically have to be recognized by the entire social group in some way, and there is no equivalent process in animal societies.

The temptation to draw conclusions about what is "natural" for human sexual behavior from observations of animal mating systems should be resisted: a socio-biologist observing the kinds of behavior shown by humans in any other species would conclude that all known mating systems were natural for that species, depending on the circumstances or on individual differences.