Sentence examples for on a mate from inspiring English sources

The males try to impress the females, and the females carefully decide on a mate – the female seahorses even do dances with the males they like.

The authors analyzed 174 songs that made it into the Top 10 in 2009 and found 92 percent of them had one or more themes from a long list of 19 categories of messages related to evolutionary biology, from descriptions of genitalia to keeping tabs on a mate.

After spending time as a deckhand on a mate's boat I decided commercial fishing was the life for me.

I'm sure the Queen wouldn't have minded sleeping on a mate's settee for a couple of weeks while builders repaired the damage.

This is the first example of such strong gender selection based solely on a mate's looks, experts say.

Additionally, our estimations of energetic expenditure on mate choice are conservative: in calculating the energy spent on a mate choice event we included elevations in energetic expenditure during the encounter, and for up to three minutes following the cessation of locomotion.

Using both a budgeted and a non-budgeted mate design task, we investigated the effect of mate value on the design of a mate.

In environments in which female economic dependence on a male mate is higher, male parental investment is more essential.

Gears operate in pairs to transmit and modify rotary motion and torque (turning force) without slip, the teeth of one gear engaging the teeth on a mating gear.

At the beginning of the experiment, one male was placed together with 14 hermaphrodites on a mating plate.

Every young queen goes on a mating flight and then stores the sperm she collects from multiple matings for the rest of her life, using it up bit by bit as she lays eggs.