[10] This is important
during the mating season when the seals do not leave the beach to feed, and must conserve body moisture as there is no incoming source of water.
Behavioral Benefits Although these cycles vary from animal to animal, an intact female cat will generally go into heat for four or five days every three weeks or
so during the mating season.
Until spaying and neutering pets became available and accessible around the 1930s, keeping intact cats indoors was messy
business during mating season.
The lizards, which can grow to 2.5 metres long and are the largest in the world, often battle over females
during mating season in August, but Gudkov failed to witness an attack.
Normal increases in vocalization
occur during mating season when female cats are in heat and male cats compete for access to them.
Hissing is a common vocalization that indicates defensive behavior and is often used during feeding, fighting, and repeatedly by
females during mating season (San Diego Zoo, 2016).
Male platypuses have venomous spurs on their hind legs that they use in competition with other
males during mating season and, when needed, for self - defense.
The dull color indicates either a female or a non-breeding male, since breeding males turn a jaunty
blue during mating season.
Although the two groups aren't geographically
separated during the mating season, the migratory division has led to a rapid genetic and physical divergence between them as though they were reproducing kilometers apart, the researchers conclude.
In the same experiment with the Ruddy Ducks, the males» penises didn't grow any longer than they usually
do during mating season, but one of the males maintained his length for twice as long as his rivals did.
Nearly 81 % of all cub mortality occurred
during the mating season of the study period, the scientists say, and «most, if not all» of these deaths were due to infanticide.
When the researchers examined where the successful mothers
lived during the mating season, they found that they stayed close to human settlements, at a median distance of 783 meters, they report today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Male black - and - white snub - nosed monkeys appear to have taken a lesson from Revlon — they go for the rouge - lipped
look during the mating season.
Ginseng provokes excitement, enhances endurance, and in lab studies with female rats there was even an increase in their ability to attract male
rats during mating season.
However, the surprising fact is that your kitten litter could have different fathers since the queen could mate with different
tomcats during the mating season.
Female lays up to 250 to 300 eggs onto the soft underside of the male's
tail during mating season, usually beginning in October or November.
The national marine sanctuary in Monterey Bay is cracking down on drones flying over nursing seals and their
young during mating season.
My short visit to the sanctuary
came during the mating season (September to December) and, as a result, males were engaging in remarkable call - and - response bellowing.
And I still intend to see hammerhead sharks gathered off Cocos
Island during mating season, when all the females are swimming together and the males are fighting to make their way into to hook up with the alpha females.
«Drilling near breeding areas would be
prohibited during mating season, and power lines would be moved away from prime habitat to avoid serving as perches for raptors who prey on sage grouse,» notes Bette Grande, a research fellow at the Heartland Institute and a former North Dakota state legislator.