Sentence examples for mating with several from inspiring English sources
Black bears are promiscuous, males and females often mating with several individuals.
The species is polygamous, with each male polecat mating with several females.
A female kakapo will likely be able to produce eggs even when there are few resources, while a male kakapo will be more capable of perpetuating the species when there are plenty, by mating with several females.
Do males which mate with the largest number of females dominate paternity, or do females, despite mating with several males, have preferences?
Most mammals have a mating system characterised by either polygyny (successful males mating with several females and females with only one male) or polygynandry (members of both sexes mating with multiple partners) (Wittenberger & Tilson 1980; Clutton-Brock 1989).
The mating system examined was rotational mating with several closed sire lines in the upper level.
Both males and females may mate with several individuals, but females raise the young alone.
When the Slovenian Anton Janscha and the Swiss François Huber and François Burnens established that the queen mated with several drones on a so-called mating flight, the old-line moralists were put to flight.
Female chimps or bonobos in oestrus often mate with several different individuals, so males must reproductively compete in this way and larger testes will therefore confer greater reproductive fitness.
Snails often mate with several partners before laying eggs, and it is thought the dart's coating also serves to reduce the chance of re-mating, perhaps by causing more sperm to be stored.
But in some species, females are also choosy after mating — females of some insect species will mate with several males but use only one male's sperm for fertilization, for example.
