Because most swarms were observed over several evenings and the effect of date on mating success was not significant (Tables 1, 2 and 3), overall swarm mating success was computed as the average number of couples over the nights the swarm was observed.
The interval from the onset of mating to conception (MCI) was determined relative to the parturition date.
I kept wanly recalling its heyday while watching this dismal off-Broadway import: it apes the revue-form while sticking, with a hermetic blandness, to the single subject of dating, mating and sexually relating.
Unlike our heterosexual counterparts, our "training years" when we are supposed to learn the basics of dating, mating and boundaries are typically truncated.
In most species of anurans with a lek mating system studied to date, male mating success is determined by the number of nights that a male is present in a breeding aggregation, i.e. chorus tenure [ 17].
At Dune Southampton, six feet of velvet rope is all that is needed to restrict entry into the dating and mating grounds of the famous, fabulous and fortuned.
But evidence that there is such a thing as being too familiar is the glut of candy-colored escapist fantasies about dating and mating that arrive in summertime.
The Bachelor franchise offers excellent examples of how to be a dick in dating and mating.
Hell, I've written books about dating and mating.
This prospective cohort study of 463 cows on 1 farm in the lower North Island of New Zealand was designed to assess the effect of clinical lameness, as identified by farm staff, on the hazard of conception after the planned start-of-mating date.
