Animals also choose their mates, sometimes with a great deal of care. Mating systems are important to understand because they reflect the result of natural selection on mate choice, and ultimately ...

Female dolphins engage in synchronized swimming and female baboons alter their menstrual cycle to avoid male coercion and ...

One reason for that could be that the full complexity of animal mating systems has only become clear thanks to genetic studies, notes Antica Culina, a senior scientist at the Ru?er Bošković Institute ...

These fish, named medaka or Oryzias latipes, were found to be able to mate 19 times per day on average, with some males managing up to 27 matings, according to a paper in the online journal Royal ...

(These birds are among the rare animals that hide to mate.) “Their females will mimic the flashes of females from other species and lure the males over for mating,” says Seago. “When the ...

Working out the kinks of mating in the animal kingdom helps to gain insights into the survival of species. Among animals that have multiple partners who deposit eggs outside their body ...

In some animals, frogs for instance ... In this species (as with most birds), a male can't force a female to mate. Like a solo rock star, he must devise a bower, song, and dance that wows the ...

Working out the kinks of mating in the animal kingdom helps to gain insights into the survival of species. Among animals that have multiple partners who deposit eggs outside their body ...