(If the just-enough Germans ever start mating with the profligate Brazilians, watch out).
Zoo Atlanta enlisted experts to artificially inseminate Lun Lun, who had shown no interest in mating with the zoo's male panda, Yang Yang.
In crudely Darwinian terms, it cuts against both the male impulse toward promiscuity and the female interest in mating with the highest-status male available.
The kid, Tommy, has sustained himself over the decades by mating with the cloyingly cute local fauna and eating his children the inbred grotesqueness of whom is rendered with heart-stunning flair.
She also told of how females would try to protect their young by quickly and repeatedly mating with the invading male, apparently in hopes that he would be confused enough to view the existing infants as his own.
For another cup a frog — this one made by the artist — appears to be mating with the hillock on which the cup rests while also serving as a handle.
Even those with extravagant displays are guilty of some rampant hybridisation as well (including pheasants and ducks) so the most gaudy and elaborate of signals can still lead to animals mating with the wrong species, suggesting that it's not such a big deal for them all the time.
A GPS error prevented SpaceX's Dragon supply ship from mating with the ISS early this morning.
As each block was placed into position, the vertical face mating with the beam or another block was coated with repair material and pressed together.
If these preferences were to result in assortative mating in the field (females with red preferences mating with the reddish males only, females with blue preferences mating with the blue), sexual selection in the form of variation in female mating preferences could result in the formation of new species.
This suggests males of the species sacrifice their own genitalia as a kind of plug, to block others from mating with the female.
