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In the wild the female would have a degree of choice over who she is mating with and she would probably be mated by four or five males over the period that she would be in season [which is, admittedly, only 36 hours a year].
Now that the birds are back, George picks up his pace, walking all night in the wind and rain, taking detailed notes of which birds have returned, which nest sites are occupied, who is mating with whom -- all written into one of his yellow field journals with a pen taped to a footlong tent stake, the better to manipulate it while wearing two pairs of gloves.
These presumably meet the function of convincing the female that she is mating with a male of the correct species.
Larger and more dominant males will sometimes try to remove a subordinate male while he is mating with a female.
Then again, the authorities (whether civic or religious) aren't exactly anxious to facilitate life for some random individual who is mating with a gaggle of women.
Polyandry could therefore evolve to avoid incompatibilities arising from both inbreeding depression, that is, mating with close relatives, and outbreeding depression, that is, across a species barrier, for example, mating with a sister species (Arnqvist and Nilsson 2000).
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In her final embrace, she is mated with the serpent, that eternal symbol of the devil.
Eventually we'll get to the point where our pager is mated with the blender.
Wisdom is mated with naked feeling, and it finds expression in naked tone.
Humans have been mating with their relatives for at least 10,000 years.
Then they checked each foursome every few minutes to see who was mating with whom.
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