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But in species where a female mates with several males in quick succession, sperm can hook up with each other--sometimes by the hundreds--to outswim competitors.
In large herds, the female mates with several males.
Honey bees are an excellent system in which to study this process: colonies typically consist of a single reproductive queen and thousands of sterile worker bees, and the queen mates with several males (12 males on average; reviewed in reference 2) during a brief period in her early adult life.
Consider a population of polygynous (harem) breeding system with Nm male and Nf female parents, in which a male mates with several females and a female mates with only one male.
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Males mate with several females, all of which lay eggs in a common nest.
In the wild, female pandas go into heat and mate with several males.
Black bears are promiscuous, males and females often mating with several individuals.
Both males and females may mate with several individuals, but females raise the young alone.
Females of some species mate only once, whereas others mate several times with the same male or mate with several different males.
He will mate with several of them, who in turn will deposit dozens of eggs in the chamber before flying off to find new mates.
It is polygynous where one male can mate with several females, has a high fecundity, and can produce up to three generations per year20,23.
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