Sentences with phrase «further copulation»
This affords males a foothold to deposit a copulatory plug full of sperm, as well as proteins that make females unreceptive to further copulation for a few hours.
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Once a female baboon mates with a preferred male, it is in her best interest to give that male's sperm the best chance to fertilize her eggs by avoiding further copulation.
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«This is intriguing and a bit counter-intuitive because a long phallus prolongs copulation, and forced copulations characteristic to species with a large phallus should further promote virus transfer,» says Hegyi.
Mammalogists have proposed several functions — from keeping the penis stiff during copulation to signaling the fitness of a male — but, so far, the only idea with strong support comes from a study of mice in which the width of the baculum was tied to how many offspring the males sired.