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In the SM system, males frequently mated with more than one female during a mating period of 4 days.
We found that female age influenced the age and dominance ranks of the males they mated with; yearling females represented almost half of the matings gained by young males (46%), and they mated with more younger and lower-ranking males than older females, which mated almost exclusively with dominant males.
In a study in southern Texas during the mating seasons from 1990 to 1992, about one third of all females mated with more than one male.
Because of this ratio, it was considered reasonable to assume that in their society, Kentrosaurus males mated with more than one female, a behaviour found in other vertebrates also.
Residential females sexually accepted males they had previously mated with more rapidly than newly invading males [5].
We used General Linear Mixed Models (GLMMs) to test the hypothesis that females mated with more closely related social males would also engage in extra-pair fertilization.
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Despite popular opinion, pandas are actually considered rather promiscuous, because they mate with more than one partner.
In species where females routinely mate with more than one male, males have evolved to make more sperm than in those where females are prim.
Clans also seem to caucus on which males they like and will mate with more or less as a group and which ones they will collectively spurn.
The most dominant male will mate with more estrous females than will any other males and thus will father a high proportion of the next generation.
Smaller males are more agile, and their greater mobility may allow them to find and mate with more females.
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