The costs accruing from missed matings are higher in species where males have less mating opportunities.
This gives males many mating opportunities, while females risk decreased fitness from superfluous costly matings.
We spend our time trying to maximize our outcomes — competing for status, wealth and mating opportunities.
Deployed properly, they bring the rewards of status and better mating opportunities.
The root of must is the Urdu word for intoxication, and this elephant was in quest of mating opportunities.
You are not alone: there are plenty of men on the lookout for short-term mating opportunities.
Senior bulls often wander alone seeking mating opportunities, announcing themselves by the loud clicking of their forelegs as they walk.
From an evolutionary perspective, sexual arousal may function, in part, to motivate the pursuit of attractive mating opportunities.
Males who share meat from a kill with the females will be the males favoured by those same females with mating opportunities.
And like a mouse, Mr. Shelley leaves his burrow periodically, usually at night, "to forage for food, materials and mating opportunities".
Mating opportunities for nomad males are rare, and competition between male lions to defend a pride's territory and mate with the pride females is fierce.
