Sentence examples for mating territory from inspiring English sources

The biggest males stake out their mating territory and issue a low-pitched whooping sound to attract the females.

When she removed alpha males from eight randomly selected mating areas, seven of the eight beta buddies began acting like alphas for a while--but they did not maintain this status into the next breeding season and thus did not have an automatic advantage over other male birds within the same mating territory.

Philip Starks, a graduate student in neurobiology and behavior at Cornell University, and Emily Poe, a Cornell senior, first noticed the "male-stuffing" behavior on a videotape made in the fall, when males idly hang around the nest before leaving to stake out new mating territory.

In rodents, social approach has been studied primarily within the context of behavioral phenomena related to sexual reproduction, such as mating, territory defense and parental care.

Second, in anadromous males, a large body size confers competitive benefits when establishing a mating territory (Metcalfe et al. 2003).

Breeding territories were mapped over all years and daily observations of the colony provided the territory locations of adult females at the time of parturition (birth) and mating, territory males during the mating season and birth locations of pups (Table 1).

This cryptic male, or "faeder" (Old English "father") obtains access to mating territories together with the females, and "steals" matings when the females crouch to solicit copulation.

Based on classical assumptions that large body size is favoured in territorial males [45],[46], we predicted that larger individuals control more frequently mating territories and consequently disperse less from their section of origin than smaller individuals.

Because males emerge earlier than females, the males compete for mating territories surrounding the nests in which the females are located.

The territorial males, about 84% of the total, have strongly coloured black or chestnut ruffs and stake out and occupy small mating territories in the lek.

These results are consistent with a lek mating system where males aggregate in a place and hold mating territories.