Sentences with phrase «males time their mate»

Not exact matches

this time of year the males are ready to mate.

Dawn is the magic hour for turkey hunting in spring, which is the turkey mating season, the time when the male turkey earns his nickname of gobbler.

Not only are native males wasting their time trying to mate with a different species, they are also at high risk of predation for their efforts.

We estimate that a female who mates 2 - 3 times may build 30 - 40 percent of the eggs she lays from proteins the male transfers during copulation.

The researchers took female fruit flies from six different strains and mated each with two males: one guy, with an eye - color mutation, got lucky every time; the other was a male picked from one of the six strains.

New research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology finds that women who were reminded of a time that their dad was absent from their lives — or who actually experienced poor quality fathering while growing up — perceived greater mating intent in the described behaviors of a hypothetical male dating partner and when talking with a man.

Males across species generally have less time and fewer resources invested in reproducing and raising offspring, which is why, researchers believe, they're more likely to engage in riskier, often more violent acts to win mates.

Sometimes — but not all the time — she devours the male after he jumps on her back to mate, seen here.

But at the same time they have societies, divisions of labor, males with elaborate mating displays that females choose among.

Social monogamy evolved many times across mammals as a male mating strategy in species where females are widely spaced for ecological reasons.

Speciation had taken place four times as fast in clades where females mated with many males, his team reports in the 12 September Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In some species, enhanced male - female genital fit has evolved over time in ways that make mating easier.

However, if sexual signals are less reliable then it becomes difficult for males to optimally time when to mate and mate guard females.

Consider what happens to opossums in hard times: Since runty males might not find mates but skinny females can usually get a partner, more daughters are born.

The «anti-aphrodisiac» doesn't just help the male keep the female to himself; it also prevents other males from wasting their time courting a female that's not going to mate with him.

When healthy females were mated with infected and uninfected male mice, the females paired with infected males were about four times less likely to become pregnant as those paired with uninfected males.

By the time Ardi appeared, our ancestors had stopped fighting over mates — as suggested by the small canines and woodland diet of the male Ardipithecus — and started providing for their females and offspring instead.

When the mice mated, the infected males had a harder time getting females pregnant and produced fewer viable fetuses than uninfected males.

Kondor could have been prompted by the presence of a male partner - in - crime who was willing to help in return for more mating time, Marzec said.

Although matters can sometimes get complicated — the evolution of higher choosiness in one sex can either promote or impede selection for choosiness in the other, depending on the conditions — the researchers find that, if the ecological circumstances are such that individuals spend a large part of their lives searching for mates (e.g., male Mormon crickets, many male spiders), then the cost of choosiness is also high — and individuals can be expected not to be particularly choosy (it takes too much time).

«Flies in AAA groups were typically more relaxed in their attitude to mating and spent less time harassing the females than males in other groups,» said Dr Pizzari.

(Female flies typically mate with multiple males over a short time period.)

The note given off by the wing - beat frequency attracts males at specific mating times.

They stay closer to human settlements during the most likely time of male infanticide, the mating season.

The researchers compared the bugs» armament — such as a male's ability to grasp a female, or a female's ability to wriggle away from a male — with the number of times the bugs mated.

For the first time, scientists studied these cephalopods in captivity, allowing 24 octopuses (13 male and 11 female) to mate in large tanks after acclimatizing to their new homes.

When the team dabbed sperm onto males» penises before the insects mated with virgin bedbugs, the mating time was reduced by about half, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Control penises dabbed with virgin bedbug juices led to first - time mating practices.

Scientists watched for the first time as an alpha male from one troop cared for — and then mourned — its dying mate, New Scientist reports.

Females are known to spend more time close to males they prefer to mate with.

When ant queens mate with multiple males their sperm have a single time - window to compete with rival ejaculates for storage in the reproductive organs of the queens.

A provocative study by evolutionary biologists at McMaster University takes on one of Charles Darwin's central ideas: that males adapt and compete for the attention of females because it is the females who ultimately choose their mates and the time of mating.

Floating can be a successful breeding strategy as bachelor males avoid investing their energy into defending territory and looking after chicks, instead spending time searching for mates.

That's pretty much how male crickets spend their time: When active, they call out from their hiding places to potential mates.

«Indeed, D. melanogaster males lacking Gr32a will attempt to mate with fruit flies of other species even if these species are two to three times larger and look different to the untrained human eye,» Shah said.

«The other way is maybe it's not entirely in the female's best interests to become aggressive every time she mates — but it is in the male's interest.

They scientists said if the timing of crest development is associated with «intense intrasexual competition» among male primates (where members of the same sex compete for mates), we could look back to the fossil record to see if a similar picture emerges among our extinct ancestors that also had sagittal crests.

In species where the timing of ovulation within a cycle can be more accurately predicted, males may be able to mate guard and monopolise fecund females during days when they are able to conceive.

Body language of holding hands: Reading body language is all about looking at the person or the people and then taking the time to make an interpretation Body language How to read body language signs and gestures - non-verbal communications - male and female, for work, social, dating, and mating relationships

Im a single male looking for my soul mate to live out the rest of time I'm an active person in good physical shape with no ailments, I enjoy cycling, dancing, live music, mostly blues and rock.

At this time, your dog may get pregnant or start to get into fights with male dogs, as she is not ready to mate.

Also, the mating instincts in un-neutered cats can not be curbed or controlled, and often these male cats will wander off for days at a time in search of a female that is in heat.

The males will be interested in her sexually at this time but she should not stand for the mating unless or until she is ovulating and expereinced stud dogs know to wait for this time before attemping to mate her.

Female dogs have bi-annual breeding cycles and male dogs are willing to mate any time a female is in heat.

The female usually ovulates during this time so if she mates with a male, pregnancy is highly likely.

Neutered males don't have to defend their territories or fight over mates and females don't have to go through the trauma of birth and fending for their young multiple times a year.

This is the time when she wants to mate and will allow a male to mount her.

We will soon start giving him some time and exposure with our male fox whose mate died recently.

The snowy plover frequently raises two broods a year, and sometimes three in places where the breeding season is long.The female deserts her mate and brood about the time the chicks hatch and initiates a new breeding attempt with a different male.

Between the months of October and November, it is common for both sides to pass through Costa Rica at the same time and this could serve as an advantage for males, increasing the genetic diversity during mating.

These are training sessions for the time when they will have to battle other males to mate.