Sentences with phrase «attracted mates»

Paleontologists note that the large opening would have made it rather useless in combat, so it may have been that it was used to regulate its body temperature, or that it was perhaps part of a sexual selection behavior designed to attract a mate.

Well thankfully you: 1) are not, and 2) never will be, and 3) hopefully are too stupid to attract a mate capable of producing a child to which you can pass off your views.

To human ears, the aesthetic value of a bird song suffers when the bird must become practical and repel an intruder or attract a mate (ANHN 105 - 31).

Therefore that animal would have to be prideful and vain and put on a show to attract its mate.

His beauty ensures ongoing life and death — attracting the mate for procreation but attracting the predator as well.

Cannibal Fireflies Are The Femme Fatales Of The Lightning Bug World - DNAinfo.com Chicago - August 10, 2016 Their flash of «fire» light produces a bright yellow color, but no heat, and it serves several purposes, not just to attract a mate.

(One could also argue that breasts are also for attracting mates, considering other primates don't have the prominent T&A that human females do, but I digress.

Biologists have long suspected that the monkeys» howls played a role in attracting mates.

While Darwin observed that animals» colors and markings had often evolved from natural selection, either to conceal them from predators or to attract mates, the American painter Abbott Handerson Thayer insisted that coloration evolved only for concealment.

The bioluminescent ring on a female Bolitaena pygmaea; image courtesy of Michael Vecchione / NOAA / Smithsonian Institution Many animals go to great lengths to attract a mate.

As for camouflage, the bright colors of many small animals have not evolved for that function but for the purposes of attracting a mate or signaling kin or a predator.

The lengths that some males go to attract a mate can pay off in the short - term.

It is too extreme to say that for all biology cares, males need only to attract a mate and then can pretty much die.

«These have very similar pockets on their front wings, which they use to spray pheromones into the air in order to attract a mate,» reports Stebner.

Toadfish are well known for using a strange set of hoots and grunts to attract mates or scare off predators.

The large specialised gland on the male's back releases pheromones that attract a mate.

Rosenthal speculates that fish in risky environments have evolved a secure line of communication for attracting mates, allowing them to «sidestep the tradeoff between being sexy and being dinner.»

«Horned dinosaurs in North America used their elaborate skull ornamentation to identify each other and to attract mates — not just for protection from predators.

In zebra finches, only males learn and sing songs, as this is the way they attract a mate.

These names come from the fact that some species as adults emit flashes of light to attract mates, using special light - emitting organs in the abdomen.

Soft - tissue patterns on a well - preserved fossil suggest that elaborate spines helped dinosaurs to attract mates and communicate

That family, including the well - known Triceratops, had knobby noggins thought to attract mates and keep competitors at bay.

Fun fact: B. ankarafensis has a notable calling card: Instead of producing three clicks to attract a mate, the new species uses only two.

Marshall explains that this may indicate that males have colour adaptations that balance the contradictory needs to attract a mate and to avoid becoming lunch.

«Love's labors: Study shows male lizards risk becoming lunch for a bird to attract a mate.»

Good looks are nothing to sniff at, but if you're a male guppy in a murky stream, your body odor may be more important for attracting mates.

It was also more apparent in female lizards, probably because males have a conflicting need to stand out against the rocks to attract mates.

Many insects rely on chemical signals to attract mates.

You've got to attract mates, fend off competing males, and keep your sperm count high enough to finish the reproductive job.

But a study published last year in the journal PLoS Biology argues that chameleons evolved this ability to attract mates, scare away rivals, and send other social signals — not for camouflage (at least, not initially).

This network discourages violence, Sheehy speculates, because peaceable interactions may help related males set up their own territories and attract mates, thereby increasing the likelihood that shared family genes get passed on.

Many longhorned beetles, such as this Neoclytus mucronatus, attract mates by exuding a sex pheromone.

The more men there are, he found, the more hair they grow to attract mates.

How well would the lone toadfish do at attracting a mate if he left it up to the female toadfish to notice his desirability?

Every year in late spring and early summer, along coastlines from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico, a fish called the plainfin midshipman uses its swim bladder to emit an odd droning sound in hopes of attracting a mate.

«It was obvious that they were adult male frogs, as they were calling to attract a mate,» says Austin.

If this dinosaur is anything like its relatives then it likely did not have a super sense of smell; but maybe the nose was used as a means of attracting mates, recognizing members of its species, or even as a large attachment for a plant - smashing beak.

In addition to attracting prey, the fish's blue - green radiance may attract mates and ward off predators.

Among lingcod, Bishop explained, the male not only chooses the nesting area — which he uses to help attract a mate — but also guards the nest after the female deposits her eggs there.

The study is the strongest evidence to date that the genitalia of human males — which are unusually large compared with other apes — have evolved to help attract mates, says Mautz.

Unlike many other species, male hunting spiders do not use chemical signals such as sex pheromones to attract a mate.

It almost certainly could not fly, however — an important confirmation that wings and feathers originally evolved to serve other functions like attracting mates and keeping eggs warm.

Showy peacock spiders, in contrast, flaunt rainbow - colored abdomens to attract mates, while their outsized eyes discern fine detail and color — the better to see both strutting mates and unsuspecting prey.

In other species, males make rhythmic grunts, screeches, and chirps to attract mates.

The researchers suggest that the strategy enables males to attract mates without alerting other males during the courtship ritual.

Males who use their long, elegant tail feathers to attract mates now have less stuff to strut: Their tails are short, probably deformed by radiation.

Dougherty and colleagues had three hypotheses about why the clams flash: to attract a mate, to scare off predators, or to attract prey.

Mr Seshadri observed that adult male frogs enter hollow internodes of the flute bamboo Ochlandra travancorica where they vocalise to attract mates.

Bugs in particular give off these chemicals to sound an alarm, identify a food source, or attract a mate.

While males of all frogs call to attract mates, female calls are known to occur in only 25 species the worldwide.