But for sheer amazement, the mating behavior of the squid, Octopoteuthis deletron, has to rank near the top.
Mimi, a Stuyvesant High School senior who lives in Brooklyn, spent two years after school and on weekends researching the genetics and mating behavior of a microscopic worm.
A new study clarifies the origin and possible fate of a fascinating supergene that determines the coloration and mating behavior of a widespread North American bird.
The role of 3Z,6Z,9Z-19 H seems to be as an antagonistic signal for mating behavior of A. selenaria males.
Each mosquito contains four dopamine receptors in its brain, and Jacobs is currently comparing the mating behavior of mosquitoes possessing dopamine receptors with mosquitoes whose receptors have been artificially removed.
Susan Carnell, a research psychologist at Columbia who gave the lecture on "Twilight," did manage to slip some real science into her talk, including references to a recent study of the mating behavior of male topi antelopes and a slide depicting the vagina photoplethysmograph, a contraption used to measure female arousal.
As its title suggests, the book concerns the evolution of the mating behavior of a wide range of organisms:1 it is a work about evolution by example in virtue of the many dozens of case studies Judson uses to offer readers an entreé to evolutionary reasoning and explanation.
Contrary to what the mating behavior of, say, George Clooney, might suggest, being a celebrity doesn't mean you get a lot of action -- or want a lot.
Typical mating behavior of many species of the genus Gerris and Aquarius can be described as follows: a male mounts a female without any apparent courtship behavior, grasps the female's thorax, overcomes female resistance, and then inserts his genitalia into the female genitalia through the vulvar opening between the gonocoxae [2], [3].
For example, the mating behavior of tagged lizards has been regularly observed (How 2001; Kerr et al. 2004; Michniewicz 2004).
To investigate sexual attractiveness and mating behavior of females, we set up 109 no-choice mating trials.
