Second, species with specific mating seasons, rather than all-year-round mating, had longer bacula.
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Reproduction requires mating with a creature of the opposite sex, so why does same-sex mating happen at all?
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Instead of mating with males of their species, females are increasingly mating with males of the other finch species.
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Park officials crossed their fingers for a possible mating between the two and got their wish when they noticed the gators' changing behavior going into mating season.
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I see romantic love as a basic drive that evolved millions of years ago to focus your mating energy on just one individual and start the mating process.
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And not surprisingly, those who were able to spin their web had a much better chance of mating with their partner—sometimes multiple times during the same mating session.
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According to the paper, this was on account of a phenomenon known as "mating discrimination," in which females of the native species began to avoid mating with modified males.
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By leaning on this more natural method of selection, the Brookfield Zoo hopes to have better success mating its tanagers, and the opportunity to expand similar mating methods to other animals.
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Mating attempts between different sexes don't always efficiently lead to offspring either, Dr. Kamath said — mating attempts can be rebuffed, conception may not occur and clutches or young may not survive.
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"Mining, mating, declines and regeneration" — finalist in Niches & Hollows.
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Stellar communication is particularly important when mating season rolls around.
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Mating is energy expensive for both male and female snakes.
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The authors suspect the rigors of mating are to blame.
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They're about to enter mating season, which begins in July.
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The mating behaviour comes straight out of the animal kingdom.
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During mating, a female deposits eggs into the male's pouch.
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For the males with blocked spinnerets, mating was usually terminal.
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Do you see any animals of the same sex mating?
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I went to the aquarium once and saw whales mating.
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The cycle Some of us are mating in actual captivity.
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Another shows two pigs mating in front of an audience.
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Instead, they rely on these fish's unusual audible mating calls.
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"The human mating dance doesn't take much time," he said.
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Is there more to find out about fiddler crab mating?
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Mating pairs are monogamous, he said, unlike many other species.
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Within a month the two were mating, Mr. Patch said.
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January to June is the mating season, Mr. Villalva explained.
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" Oxitec also disputes the researchers' claim that female mosquitoes began to avoid mating with modified males, saying, "Selective mating has never been observed in any releases of close to 1 billion Oxitec males worldwide.
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The royal couple are mating like rabbits and dodging elephant attacks.
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He will only stop making the vibrations once mating is ensured.
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Or, when the dating changes, does it also change the mating?
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Warmer temperatures have led to shifting habitats and shifting mating habits.
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"They should be dating, not mating," one team member tells me.
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"Successful mating is naturally rewarding to male flies," said Shohat-Ophir.
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It's like the plumage-flourishing mating dance of an exotic bird.
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In some species, the mucus discourages darted snails from mating again.
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Nor are aggressive mating practices perpetrated solely by males against females.
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But mating preferences evolved over millennia and will not change quickly.
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But mating swarms can be risky, even in the short-term.
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They were in mating behavior, so it looked like a dance.
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However, this year, the kākāpōs had a record-setting mating season!
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More mating (and no eggs) followed...until around two weeks ago.
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You'll recall, George posted an Instagram video showing 2 dogs mating.
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As you can imagine, all of this limited wolves' mating options.
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Nissan sources deny, however, that this is an orchestrated "mating game".
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The more complicated the mating dance, the more coördinated the dancer.
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So, what has changed in 80 years of teenage mating rituals?
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This diversity of human mating systems is also hard to explain.
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Pop music is the soundtrack for the mating ageSure, it's allowed.
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They also give the gardens a squawking quality in mating season.
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Could mating, and thus the slow rain of corpses, be seasonal?
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Her first book, "Mating in Captivity" (2006), was a worldwide phenomenon.
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The September package, for example, covers shooting the elk-mating season.
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If you're a romantic, you might think of mating as harmonious.
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The last step of mating which is sperm and seminal fluid release?
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This coming year, he stars in Showtime's Mating, a comedy about dating.
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Get ready to feast your eyes on some weird animal mating behavior.
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Talini — was quickly arranged in time for the Spring 2018 mating season.
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"Humans would sew condoms to use before mating," Lai and Madhaven wrote.
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When they emerge, the shrill noise they emit is their mating call.
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The TV says this is mating season and— sorry, I switched channels.
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Best about a wildlife mating ritual: "March of the Penguins" More penguins!
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ScienceTake Sexual cannibalism makes mating dangerous for male spiders of many species.
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Meanwhile, they are releasing their stag-like mating calls upon the room.
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The result was equal parts battle cry, mating dance and beauty pageant.
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But does the head really glow in the dark when it's mating?
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The bird — known for its funky mating dance — was already critically endangered.
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At Loveland, staff started noticing some penguins mating outside their social pairs.
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If the key doesn't fit into the lock, mating couldn't take place.
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Essentially, penises varied to keep different species from mating with one another.
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Mosquitoes use their wing-beat hums to find one another for mating.
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Part of the decision came from this pilot offer from Showtime ["Mating"].
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Indeed, trauma is the norm from sea otter mating, not the exception.
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It is about mating acrobatics by Panamanian birds, not the mannequin challenge.
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By mating with Neanderthals, they gave their offspring needed defenses and immunities.
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They deposit "mating plugs" in the female's body to block rival sperm.
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They deposit "mating plugs" in the female's body to block rival sperm.
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Scarcely a ripped bodice, with talk of bundling, in lieu of mating.
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It's unknown how often small males fall prey to females, but the presence of an exceptionally long mating arm and the distant mating position may hint at "sexual cannibalism being a factor in their evolution," Dr. Huffard said.
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The sheer amount of time DeBlois spends on dragon mating dances (heavily inspired by real-life bird mating dances) and courtship rituals suggests that he's much more interested in the visuals of this film than on any narrative weight.
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Researchers say the rise in assortative mating is closely linked to income inequality.
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After mating, the female wasps searched for fly pupa, re-starting the cycle.
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Wolf-hybrids are the biological product of a wolf mating with a dog.
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And for un-altered cats, loud, long yowls are part of mating behavior
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A mammoth that likely died fighting another male during the competitive mating season.
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Less clear, however, is whether or not assortative mating is on the rise.
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They are most aggressive during the annual mating or rutting season in autumn.
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But he added that there's no particular evidence for rejecting the mating idea.
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Our research explores biological processes that regulate the honey bee queen mating process.
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Plus, they are getting their mating season plumage and are too funny looking!
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Compared to spiders, the mating sequence that transpires afterwards can be almost tantric.
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Moments later, a second mallard, began mating the dead animal where it lay.
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They bite each other on the face a lot, especially when they're mating.
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Kondor broke off the mating, ran over to Sidony, and started attacking her.
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Gazing is like literally 90 percent of WLW relationships—it's our mating call.
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There is music that speaks to adults, but it probably ain't mating beats.
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A long and complex mating call is risky: It attracts frog-eating bats.
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Mostly, though, cats don't stray beyond their territory for much other than mating.
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After a blood meal, females can lay hundreds of fertile eggs without mating.
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She set out to clarify the mating rituals of the modern college campus.
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A noteworthy feature of all elk is their unique bugling call for mating.
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A tortoise more than 22019 years old, Diego has had little trouble mating.
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What are your impressions on the mating life of the blue-footed booby?
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Ms. Bennett is at least speaking to the complexity of human mating dances.
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Hiccup plays Cyrano during Toothless's mating dance with his mysterious lady-dragon friend.
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The lack of a baculum in humans is of a piece with the lack of a mating season and with the existence of a pair-bonded mating system that has, by comparison with many other species, only limited levels of promiscuity.
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Read more: Here's what to do when you find out you have bedbugs The researchers also found that when feedings (and therefore mating attempts) were predictable, the females were better able to consistently prepare for mating by boosting their immune systems.
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Paying more attention to vaginas can help explain strange mating behavior too: In water striders, bugs that live and walk on water, the females evolved a "genital shield," which can block any males that try to force them into mating.
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Having kicked off the industry's mating season, Monsanto is for now on its own.
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The audience, like anthropologists, watches this strange mating ritual from afar with calculated interest.
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Hardt charts a course through the stranger and more exotic forms of mating and
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Other fish use smell to hone in on prey, for mating, migrating, and foraging.
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Once fully developed, the wasp emerged from its incubator, looking for a mating partner.
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Male snakes are so focused on reproduction, they don't eat during the mating season.
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In the study, one male spider that came bearing gifts was eaten after mating.
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The costs and benefits of mating decisions are highest when you are most fertile.
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Using this insight, researchers began to speculate about when and where this mating happened.
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Incredibly, this comprises about 63 percent of the female's diet during the mating season.
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There is some evidence that mating can serve as a reinforcer for fruit flies.
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I feel strange dating/mating coworkers, so I never really jumped on those chances.
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But over the summer, Davidson found Jeremy mating with one of the other snails.
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Just ask Kong, an octopus whose mating session was canceled because he's too big.
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Recently, female octopuses were observed by scientists strangling males during the act of mating.
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But wild species are capable of mating when genetic diversity in a population declines.
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You could coddle them with Sea-Monkeys "Banana Treat" or "Cupids Arrow" Mating Powder.
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"The females preferred MHC-dissimilar males as mating partners," Wedekind explains of his finding.
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Male red deer, for example, engage in a tennis-like ritual during mating season.
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As they do every mating season, the tarantulas surface in search of a mate.
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Females are solitary, and males leave their groups during mating season to find females.
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Or, on special occasions, a diagramatic representation of the mating rituals of cockroaches. Delicious.
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But as I discovered, the parallels between mating and shopping are, in fact, many.
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Songbirds, which form lifelong mating pairs, have brain systems perfectly tuned to fit together.
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Instead of mating with the peahen, the learned judge said, the peacock sheds tears.
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A visual warning to the mating population of earth that communicates: No, thank you.
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"It appears they have congregated for mating," the department said in a Facebook post.
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Ms. Wolfe thinks technology turned the traditional mating dance into more of a rumble.
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It also gives female hyenas control over reproduction because mating is so logistically difficult.
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They can be presented with several potential mating partners and choose none of them.
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Here are the key themes to look out for: MATING SEASON Asia Copper Week typically marks the peak of the annual mating season between miners and smelters to set a benchmark for next year's treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) for copper concentrate.
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Sex on the beach is not normal—it's something primal, it's David Attenborough, it's mating.
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Here's just some of what science has figured out about the mating game and personality.
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For the most part, behavioral immunity has only been studied in the context of mating.
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If it was merely about reproduction, you wouldn't need these elaborate repertoires and mating dances.
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When you met someone at Google, and then you started dating, that's essentially a mating.
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It prefers to blare its screeching mating calls in females' faces at almost deafening volumes.
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"Mating Pikachu" was shot by Dennis Corpuz using a Nikon D7000 and Nikon 105mm lens.
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Two gazelles, a male and a female, seek each other out in the mating season.
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Gif via GizmodoMany animals' mating rituals can be pretty elaborate, and some are borderline disturbing.
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This one is like cats mating in alley: Unpleasant to hear, painful, and needlessly public.
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So much so that the fall season is also known as the tarantula mating season.
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The pair seems to be on the road to mating, a bizarre process for snails.
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Twice, female mantids were observed feeding on a bird while also mating with a male.
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Penguins can easily identify a particular mating call among the squawking of other birds. 7.
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Jeremy's genitals were in the wrong place on his body, which made mating a challenge.
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They can disrupt migration patterns, mating and have even been linked to whales beaching themselves.
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Try to get the image of Grimace and Rick Harrison mating out of your head.
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Black widow spiders, common in the southwest, have been known to kill males after mating.
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Researchers in India have found a new mating position frogs use when they have sex.
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For the same reason males do so many things: because mating is a competitive sport.
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Unfortunately, that strategy can also make the mosquitoes less competitive and more resistant to mating.
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Wildlife experts say the main culprits are tom turkeys on guard during the mating season.
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No pictures yet indicating whether similar festivities might greet the mating of a Kadyrov cat.
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Night lights and vehicle headlights are known to interfere with the firefly's famous mating signals.
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Winter is the mating season for these macaques, and they give birth in the summer.
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Sexually coercive men often believe that they have greater mating success than they actually do.
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Apis mellifera, or the western honeybee, goes into its mating season between April and June.
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Given that crocodilians indulge in elaborate mating displays, tyrannosaur love may have involved similar rituals.
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One of their arms also has adapted to deposit sperm packets in females during mating.
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That in turn could reduce those males' mating success, altering that particular population over time.
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The sound is a mating call the males perform during the heat of the day.
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However, the creator of Labradoodles has since said he regretted ever mating the two breeds.
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In the encounter the two researchers recorded, one male is guarding a female after mating.
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Every encounter, every thrilling chase and absurd mating dance, reveals the heartening tenacity of life.
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Inbreeding, a practice of mating between relatives, was common among Neanderthals according to previous research.
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Curiously, this is also octopus mating season, which may mean they're more vulnerable to attack.
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Dr. Rico-Guevara found that males wage their battles to claim the best mating territories.
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Because of this parasite, both medium tree finch and small tree finch are mating less.
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Rusal is looking forward to the upcoming "mating" season when aluminum contracts for 2020 are signed.
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Mating between first cousins is especially problematic, because the gene pool is literally cut in half.
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Lucas even refused to show them during the Disney-Lucasfilm mating dance until Iger's lawyers insisted.
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The mating dance of the male superb bird of paradise is like nothing else on Earth.
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Rusal is looking forward to the upcoming "mating" season when aluminium contracts for 2020 are signed.
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Newer research even suggests that this "mating ball" ritual can be potentially fatal to male snakes.
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Ms. Chesney studied the mating matrix from Santa Cruz while hatchery staff members waited for directions.
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In some cases, the bigger the gift, the longer the spiders' mating time, the study shows.
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"Mating Toads" was shot by Gino Symus using a Canon 7D and Sigma 17-70mm lens.
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Mating season has taken a strange turn for two normally platonic species on Japan's Yakushima Island.
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There would need to be something keeping this other type of human from mating with us.
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Click here to view original GIFSpiders are notorious for their bizarre and often violent mating practices.
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As you can see from this scanning electron microscope image, roundworm mating is a rough affair.Brutal.
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A GPS error prevented SpaceX's Dragon supply ship from mating with the ISS early this morning.
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Let's just say they're no sex pistols — the amphibians take 25 years to reaching mating age.
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Tonight, the mating ritual kicks off again with the premiere of season 13 of The Bachelorette.
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After mating, their eggs were fertilized, and they gave birth to at least two pups each.
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In contrast to most tick species, a single female Asian longhorned tick can reproduce without mating.
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Next Monday: All three say "I love you" at the mating stables, and Ben reciprocates – twice!
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Just a quick anthropological jaunt into the crude and increasingly vexing mating rites of college Greeks.
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The seventh mating position described in today's study is for frogs that want minimal physical contact.
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Norman Rush won a National Book Award for his novel "Mating," which had a female narrator.
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At the peak of mating season, about 12 tarantulas are typically visible at a given time.
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Typically, tarantula mating season starts in late August and terminates by the second week of fall.
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On Friday afternoon, SpaceX finished mating the upper and lower sections of the Starship Mk 1.
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Eight deer died in July and August, and 11 more died during the September mating season.
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Let me take a chance on it because a missed opportunity is zero chance for mating.
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In Southern California, the tarantula mating season is early September through late October, per CBS News.
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Some are arriving at their Arctic mating grounds so exhausted they're not in the mood anymore.
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It's also proof that pods might soon oust dating apps as the mating medium of choice.
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Another video, "A Case Study of Transference," shows two pigs mating in front of an audience.
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That's because songbirds, which form lifelong mating pairs, have brain systems perfectly tuned to fit together.
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Russia's plot to subvert an election, India's new protections for Muslim women, a panda's mating call.
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"It was like studying the peculiar mating rituals and shopping habits of the species Manhattanus Elitus."
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With the start of mating season this month, those collisions will likely increase, state officials said.
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They complete a round trip between Mexico's warm waters for mating and the Arctic for feeding.
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Traditionally, Ms. Monk said, any mating behavior that doesn't produce young is seen as a waste.
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After mating with the bacteria-carrying males, the female mosquitos will lay eggs that don't hatch.
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We know that tall, athletic-looking men typically have greater success in economic and mating markets.
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Males avoid mating with females whose feet has been dulled with paint, the researchers also discovered.
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Spruce trees, especially when in a weakened state, make a perfect mating ground for the beetles.
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Jorgensen told SFGate that it could be related to mating, or that they're simply eating something different.
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The attack was a "big stress" to the group because "it was before mating season," Malac said.
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Photo: Kelly Shimoda Female praying mantises (and a lot of female spiders) eat the males after mating.
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It's finally koala breeding season, meaning now's a great time to revisit the male koala mating call.
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The internet has grown to understand the crude reality of kangaroos mating, in the hardest possible way.
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Seasonal breeding similarly piles on the pressure, by concentrating mating attempts into a small period of time.
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One depicting the mating habits of sloths will contain less information than another showing a car chase.
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Each spring, they emerge en masse to reproduce—gathering in "mating balls" that can persist for days.
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The bondage ritual likely serves two purposes: an enhanced opportunity for mating, and an opportunity for escape.
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Scientists not only work to encourage kākāpō mating, they also help incubate and monitor eggs and nests.
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The males create a huge mating swarm hovering over the ground, waiting for the females to appear.
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Jeremy mating on the side of the tank (Image: Angus Davidson)The story could have ended there.
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Also, Eddie Redmayne's magical-rhino butt-wiggling mating dance: best thing in the movie, or worst thing?
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No one has witnessed a female giving birth, and biologists aren't sure what their mating behavior entails.
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People pick, through smell, mating partners who have the pathogen-recognition genes that others lack, for example.
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Suen says that it's important to preempt this occurrence and consider changing pandas' diet during mating season.
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Aedes aegypti conducted a sort of mid-air mating dance that had everything to do with sound.
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But Harrington found that during the mating process, males aligned their wingbeat frequency with that of females.
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The trouble is, they're in the background while we're asked to watch an extended mating-dance ritual.
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Riggleman had written a book, which he claims was a parody, about the mating habits of Bigfoot.
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The only other species that form alliances for mating purposes are lions and a few other primates.
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A spate of warm weather in the San Francisco Bay Area has extended the tarantula mating season.
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In their simplest form, genetic inheritance principles can help them better predict the outcome of a mating.
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Can you talk a little bit about how popularity relates to "mating," to use an evolutionary term?
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The working world is full of men, and they are not there to play the mating game.
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A new study has shown bedbugs can boost their immune systems before mating to protect against infections.
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As humans we notice those things, and it makes us more apt to go into mating mode.
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After mating, the male leaves to breed more, and the female lays eggs — in another bird's nest.
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That night some unfortunate dance moves were used that could be compared to monkeys during mating season.
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For males, mating with a large number of females is the ideal way for them to procreate.
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They do identify different species, but the patterns themselves seem to be dictated by female mating choices.
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The birds' shrieking and property destruction became too much for residents, especially during mating season (Miami Herald).
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But as a society we are actually in some serious trouble on the mating-and-propagation front.
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I don't know what new-old mix of mating rituals and expectations and supports could arrest Japanification.
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The phrase "mating like rabbits" should also really be changed to lionfish at this point, Akins says.
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For example, bonobo mothers frequently bring their sons into close spatial proximity with estrous females, protect their sons' mating attempts from interference by other males, interfere in the mating attempts of other males, and form coalitions with their sons to help them acquire and maintain high dominance rank.
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He even started displaying typical mating behavior around Hululu, including stretching out his wings around the cardboard figure.
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Canine transmissible venereal tumors (CTVT) is a type of contagious canine genital cancer that can spread through mating.
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It's a tough job breeding dibblers, as the mating season is only two or three weeks a year.
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All but one sample belonged to a single mating type seen among fungal species that colonize the skin.
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This makes for a unique opportunity to examine how female choice in mating may be influencing its size.
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But scientists recently documented another mating strategy, often deployed by the largest males, that is far less elegant.
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With a population of just a few hundred, generations of mating between related individuals - inbreeding - triggered harmful mutations.
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While closely related species are known to interbreed, mating between distant species is pretty rare in the wild.
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There's a dark part of the internet that seems to breed trolls, and Twitter is their mating ground.
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Since then, the tumors have persisted through the millennia by transmission of cancer cells between dogs during mating.
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They also know that "assortative mating", as the practice is called in the jargon, is exacerbating income inequality.
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But a new study claims that mating can actually shorten the lives of male red-sided garter snakes.
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The third idea holds that long life is a sort of side-effect of the rigors of mating.
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There she observes the mating behaviour of bonobos, to verify her controversial theory about the "Benefits of Bastards".
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Sometimes, mating between two species can create a new, third animal that doesn't interbreed with either parent species.
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It was once a mating ritual, but now it's all about looking silly and making the kids smile.
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As it turns out, what I mistook as territoriality is actually just typical, albeit confused, turtle mating behavior.
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Mating and territory fighting is a regular occurrence during this time of season, and their sounds are terrifying!
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During mating, male bedbugs stab a V-shaped area of a female's abdomen with their sickle-shaped genitalia.
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Before reaching the age of one year, during mating season, he ran through the dunes like a madman.
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The most common behaviors include loud mating calls in a variety of different tones, from peeps to squeals.
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The researchers did not find any examples of hybridization, or cross-mating between the groups in the wild.
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The trapper told Kibbe he was going to take it to a farm to be released for mating.
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The drug-fueled focus on mating could maximize the critical spore dispersal of those cicadas infected as nymphs.
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Camels are herd animals the males naturally wrestle each other in order to establish dominance and mating rights.
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Trilobites During mating season, the solitary mammals bleat important information to each other through their dense bamboo habitat.
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And Greenblatt finally lands in his last pages at a fairly disheartening account of mating among the chimpanzees.
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They are fiercely territorial, and are generally loners — until mating, that is, when rabbits earn their other reputation.
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Perhaps the midshipman's mating call can help lure the wealthy donors needed to bring that project to fruition.
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It's not that they need a more romantic ambience — it's that intrusive light can outshine their mating signals.
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The mating is repeated multiple times; all told, some 5,000 eggs may be released by a single female.
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They fine-tuned the process of choosing mating pairs on the basis of both genetic information and personality.
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Males are willing to kill a female's offspring, if they are unrelated to him, before mating with her.
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" Ms. Perel wrote the best-seller "Mating in Captivity" and hosts the Audible series "Where Should We Begin?
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Many valuable fish species — including tuna, blue marlin and mahi-mahi — huddle near floating objects for protection and mating.
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"It is the end of mating season and they are known to be aggressive and territorial during this time."
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The hypoxia had very little impact on their behavior and longevity, and they had no problems mating later on.
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Further research revealed that the silverfish being there was probably the finale to an intricate, three-act mating ritual.
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While some have fallen prey to wolves, evidence indicates others have started mating with them, according to SPCA International.
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Mating is being executive-produced by Jason Katims (Parenthood) and Stu Zicherman (The Americans), with Zicherman writing the pilot.
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Importantly, the researchers aren't even sure if these sexual displays are actually improving the male dolphins' odds of mating.
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With gestation taking up to 163 days, they will now be waiting to see if the mating was successful.
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Males deploy this "traumatic insemination" to initiate frequent re-mating with females, ultimately stabbing the same individual multiple times.
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He is one of just a handful of humans to witness the fabled mating ritual of the axolotl salamander.
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Adult cicadas live for two to four weeks after they emerge and spend a lot of that time mating.
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In one group of the animals, females were allowed, as per normal, to eat their deceased partners after mating.
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Siepel has also found evidence of an even earlier mating than those that took place around 50,000 years ago.
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Males who survive mating encounters can potentially reproduce multiple times, which can also be seen as a reproductive advantage.
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There exists a certain unspoken heterosexual mating ritual that has persisted for the past decade or so, possibly longer.
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Since publishing "Mating in Captivity" in 2006, Ms Perel has become a globe-trotting guru on sex and relationships.
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They've moved in herds over to porn as well, along with many other earnest investigations of dinosaur mating behaviors.
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Image: Mark Norman / Museum Victoria/Wikimedia CommonsFemale dumpling squids just can't catch a break—mating is awful for them.
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Sam narrates what transpires while doling out bits of encyclopedic knowledge about things like the mating habits of penguins.
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These mating habits are unique among arachnids, which are more known for eating their lovers than savoring moments together.
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The CDC reports a female Asian longhorned tick can lay 1,000 to 2,000 eggs at a time without mating.
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The aquarium invites visitors to watch an octopus couple mating every year on Valentine's Day, CNN affiliate KOMO reported.
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One of them, canine transmissible venereal tumour (CTVT), spreads between dogs through the transfer of living cells during mating.
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Flannery's new straightness "made her feel older," her new sense of self mixed up with the ritual of mating.
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And if it were him doing an Erumpet mating dance, I think I'd get a kick out of that.
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Background: The bird, which has a unique mating dance, became a lightning rod in the debate over endangered species.
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These mating attempts don't help the cicadas much, as the fungus has already eaten through their genitals and butt.
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What all this amounts to is, in essence, a supercharged version of an existing process known as assortative mating.
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A parasitic worm that was thought to only infect cows has started to infect humans, mating in our eyes.
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Researchers had noted that this behavior was probably defensive, given the generally high level of danger in spider mating.
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"Now if men are mating with men and women with women, then they are worse than animals," he said.
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Neanderthals likely avoided total extinction due to interbreeding, the study notes, by mating with other human species—like us.
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We Negro kids divided along class lines: where we went to church, by neighborhood and by our mating habits.
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In the Tinder context, displaying wealth is one strategy used to signal status and resources; it's a mating call.
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But how does the fungus get the cicada to ignore the damage to its body and carry on mating?
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As we hiked, Ms. Cassens's husband, Tanner, 36, explained which sounds indicated that elk were dueling, mating or courting.
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Mating for life, they often nest in the same area where the female, known as a pen, was born.
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They supported Representative Louie Gohmert of Texas, who has suggested that reducing Alaskan oil flows could diminish caribou mating.
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But now researchers are decoding their come-hither mating calls, full of vital information about pandas' size and identity.
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"He has no use for her right now," Abraham said, explaining that they'd eaten and it wasn't mating season.
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Mr. Morgado-Santos's group found this instance of androgenesis by accident, while studying the mating patterns of Squalius alburnoides.
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Yes, it is mating season for the blue-footed booby, a marine bird that nests on the Galápagos archipelago.
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A covert U.S. effort to undermine Iran, more troubles for Carlos Ghosn and the musical mating rituals of finches.
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Without breeding plumage or a mating season, there are no obvious indicators as to whether someone is into you.
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Actually, you hardly see Chubbs, or any other alligator, out and about, except during the spring mating season, he said.
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It is proposed that male frogs can count up to 4 – 6 "chucks" (or distinct croaks) in their mating calls.
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Photo: Heinz WiesbauerDuring the same expedition, the researchers also observed a flying mating pair, which hadn't ever been seen before.
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Of course, males who survive mating could produce multiple times with other partners, so clearly there's some evolutionary tension here.
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Throughout most of June — which is considered the high mating season — the river is empty and the bear watching slow.
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There ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no runway long enough, to keep diamondback terrapins from their mating ritual, babe.
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All of these observations make sense if the baculum's purpose is to compete with the mating efforts of other males.
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Through mating with another northern white rhino at the zoo, Sudan now had a single daughter, Najin, and granddaughter, Fatu.
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Apparently, they "flirt" with each other before before mating, and now I need to know their pick-up lines. 4.
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This particular sloth on the island of Escudo thought he heard a mating call of a female across the mangroves.
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Kowalczyk and others are planning to interrupt this narrative come summer to prevent the cow from mating with a bison.
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Researchers, led by staff at the University of Sydney, analyzed four months of data from a mating site in Manitoba.
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Dakin speculates that peahens might prefer higher frequency, more demanding displays because they benefit from mating with more powerful males.
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Turns out these charming little cephalopods can—and will—throw down if they have to, especially when it involves mating.
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Diego may be seen doing most of the mating, but it doesn't mean the females are going along with it.
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" "Diego isn't the biggest one, but he's got a spunky personality," Gibbs says, who describes tortoise mating like "bumper cars.
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After mating, the males retreat back into the interior, while the females stay behind in the burrows, brooding their eggs.
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On Friday afternoon, Botha was leading a hunt in Gwai, Zimbabwe, when they stumbled upon a herd of mating elephants.
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Their mating signals were mixed up because, in California, day-night circadian rhythms are different than in their Arctic home.
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The synchronous fireflies have an elaborate and spectacular mating pattern that illuminates the Great Smoky Mountains like a gentle strobe.
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LFA sonar can harm the animals by interrupting mating, stopping communication, causing them to separate from calves, and inflicting stress.
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One frog only released the mating sounds; the other also inflated a balloon mimicking the movement of a vocal sac.
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During mating season, which lasts for several weeks each year, males and females move frantically from one mate to another.
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Mating can happen naturally, but more commonly, cows are artificially inseminated, a practice that some animal rights activists find unacceptable.
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The microscopic fungus provides protein and, during mating, a fly's brain circuitry can be altered to make them crave it.
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Some tarantulas are native to Southern California and their mating season in the region is typically early September through October.
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Trilobites While the lives of squid are mysterious in many ways, one gruesome truth is that after mating comes death.
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Every spring, the annual mating ritual of tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes attracts thousands of curiosity-seekers.
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They settle near the backside of the Taj Mahal and excrete a green substance on its walls during mating flights.
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While in a nature preserve next to the vast, man-made Sukhna Lake we came upon two monkeys vigorously mating.
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The second day, eating lunch under a tree, we watched a cricket jump onto another cricket and they started mating.
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But when researchers at a Utah aquarium noticed some penguins mating outside their pairs, it called for a closer look.
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Another rogue female had been mating with two different males too — even though the males were in stable social pairs.
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When a male pigeon looks for a mate, he finds a good nesting spot before launching into his mating call.
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Typically, the only time mountain lions are seen together are during mating season or when a mother is raising cubs.
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None of them will have lived more than a year—they were all born after the previous year's mating bonanza.
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"It's really interesting that it would evolve twice in dasyurids because it's such an extreme mating system," Dr. Hayes said.
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Finally, it's mating season for the blue-footed booby, a one-of-a-kind bird found on the Galápagos Islands.
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Hollywood, the overdetermined his-and-hers pains of heterosexual mating—could almost have been made in 1970, as Company was.
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Officials were forced to close a Florida park due to the presence of snakes mating en masse near Lake Hollingsworth.
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"It's really interesting that it would evolve twice in dasyurids because it's such an extreme mating system," Dr. Hayes said.
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It's changing their mating song, confusing female finches so much that they sometimes mate with the wrong species of finch.
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