Sentence examples for locating a mate from inspiring English sources

Other reptiles, such as certain diurnal lizards and crocodiles, appear not to use scent in searching for prey, though they may use their sense of smell for locating a mate.

These tissues suggest that the male-biased paralogs could be implicated in sensory functions, such as locating a mate.

"O.K., now that I've eaten I feel like mating," and he located a mate the computer had generated for him.

It can't be easy attracting a partner in the dark; males and females glow from different parts of their bodies and scientists think that this helps them locate a mate.

In turn, sensory perception drives behavioral strategies to forage, locate a mating partner and actively avoid danger (Fraenkel and Gunn, 1961; Schöne, 1984).

Upon locating a potential mate, the male would court her without distraction from the geometry of the chamber until successful copulation (Movie S4).

After locating a potential mate, a male will attempt grasping the individual in the so-called tandem formation, i.e. when the male succeeds in attaching his anal appendages to the individual's prothorax [ 51].

By engaging in this behaviour, the male sacrifices time he could use to locate a new mate in favour of preventing her from copulating with other males before she can lay her eggs.

After the male of the European nursery-web spider has located a suitable mate, he captures a fly, wraps it in silk, and presents it to the female; while the female is occupied with eating the fly, the male mates with her.

Attraction to spend time near the source of a male's scent will thus be the primary mechanism that allows females to locate a selected mate, stimulated by contact with this protein pheromone.

In particular, the moth pheromone detection system is extremely sensitive: a male can smell and locate a female miles away for mating [ 1].