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The reduction in harmful matings evolved because of changes in the speed of mating, with faster maters mating with other compatible fast maters, slow maters mating with other compatible slow maters, thus reducing harmful mating.
In its statement announcing the decision, the federal agency noted that hunting specific older bulls that were known to keep cows in the herd from mating with other bulls was necessary to increase the rhino population.
The researchers also performed paternity tests on the lizards' offspring and found that although the females were pairing up with the scrawny males, they were also mating with other, larger ones.
The creature's ideal reproductive strategy — mating with other starfish, releasing a million eggs, of which a handful survive the oceans, and then moving on — was arrived at ages ago: in the long indifferent view of nature, the starfish is more successful than all the antler-heavy elks and tail-proud peacocks and self-shaving mammals that we celebrate.
The researchers suspect that contaminants in runoff from rural villages confused the fishes' sense of smell, which typically prevents them from mating with other species.
This makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint: Surviving males could try to keep sowing their genetic oats by mating with other females.
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They tested Oxford zoologist Jonathan Kingdon's suggestion that the guenons' (Cercopithecini) variety of facial appearances was due to their need to identify their own species and avoid mating with others.
"They have to mate with other organisms.
These offspring will grow up to mate with other wild mosquitoes and the cycle repeats.
Dying while mating with one female robs them of the chance to mate with other females.
In captivity, lions have been induced to mate with other big cats.
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