Additionally, our experiments show that DA promotes the refractory period, the time between successful mating attempts, coupling sperm release with mating-related behavioral inhibition.
And except for one small niggling detail, it's a surprisingly successful mating.
This is no easy feat, because successful mating requires that the male insert his erect penis into the female's "pseudopenis".
One theory among several suggests that it was a response to the atmospheric cooling during the Pleistocene, to ensure sufficient populations for successful mating.
Muting experiments showed that successful mating was dependent on vocalizing.
They made several attempts but no successful mating took place.
Successful mating was determined by the presence of vaginal plug the next morning.
Before a successful mating, the vixen may often rebuff an amorous male with snarls and yelps.
The majority of respondents in this study are able to detect early pregnancies two weeks after a successful mating.
Seventy-five percent of respondents detect early pregnancies in their herds by observing raising of the tail by a cow when approached two weeks after a successful mating.
The Allee effect is caused by various kinds of biological and environmental factors, such as difficulties in finding mates, low probability of successful mating, depletion in inbreeding rate, anti-predator aggression, predator avoidance due to evolutionary change, etc. [5 8].
