Sentence examples for act of mating from inspiring English sources
These costs may be due to the act of mating itself and/or sexual harassment by males during multiple matings.
An additional use of slime by slugs is in the act of mating.
In those that do not (e.g., reflex ovulators), including some cats, rodents, weasels, shrews, rabbits, the act of mating substitutes for the environmental effects on the pituitary gland in releasing ovulatory hormones (see hormone).
They even filmed one mother-son pair in the act of mating.
Plant reproduction is the most graphic case, because the very act of mating in plants often requires other species.
The prolongation of the life span of C. obscurior queens by mating with winged males thus can only be explained either by queens detecting the presence or absence of wings in their mates and accordingly adjusting their life-history strategy, by the act of mating itself, or the quantity or quality of substances transferred by the male during copulation proximately affecting life expectancy.
To better understand how differential selective pressures act on mating systems and patterns of reproductive success in natural populations, comparative studies with other glass frog species that have less intense (e.g. H. fleischmanni, [ 60]) or absent (e.g. Cochranella pulverata, [ 25]) parental care are needed.
Because the parent child bond is so strong in most primates (itself Darwinian), the act of mate choice, though filtered through a distinctly human social lens, feeds back on those social filters to transform them.
Extreme cases of such conditions include semelparous species where a lifetime's reproductive success depends on a single act of mate choice [15].
The UV patterns act as visual cues which help differentiate between species for the purpose of mating.
