Sentence examples for recent mate from inspiring English sources

In species that are polyandrous, a female might adaptively alter her investment strategy depending on the specific qualities (i.e. the direct/indirect costs and benefits) associated with her most recent mate in order to maximize her lifetime reproductive success [ 16].

The act is swift, but leaves empty sperm sacs on the female body as an outward sign of recent mating.

One suggestion is that the animals found in eastern America are a coyote-wolf hybrid that hunt more frequently in packs and can take down larger prey.In America's cities the key to the coyote's success is its virtual invisibility, and sightings of the animal during the recent mating season were unusual enough to have been the subject of news reports.

Results replicate the previous finding that alarm calling is sensitive to both social rank and recent mating success.

That indicated that these colors are not the product of recent mating with dogs, and that animals boasting them today can be considered pure dingoes.

Most brown bears have about 2 percent genetic material from polar bears, but one population residing in the Alexander Archipelago has between 5 percent and 10 percent polar bear genes, indicating more frequent and recent mating.

glutinis might be related to a strong but relatively recent mating type imbalance.

Human-associated population #4 bears the additional signature of high rates of heterozygosity, implying relatively recent mating events in the origin of this group.

Some of the admixed strains also exhibit high rates of heterozygosity, indicating a relatively recent mating between strains with different ancestries.

The chapter then explores the mating proclivities of other great apes and how we might find evidence for our more recent prehistoric mating systems using genetic and linguistic studies of modern humans.

Plus Elton John, who I am recent best mates with, used to be chairman.