Sentences with phrase «mating behavior»

His work covers all areas of science, from the quirky mating behaviors of different animals, to the drug and alcohol habits of ancient cultures, to new advances in solar cell technology.

Instead, costs of mating in females appear to determine how patterns of parental care evolve in response to changes in mating behavior.

By eliminating mating behaviors, Trap - Neuter - Return makes cats better neighbors.

It is you who set him up for mating behavior for the rest of his life.

As a result, scientists now have a much better understanding of what shapes female mating behavior not only within one dangerous mosquito species, but across two of them.

However, these studies did not in the end help identify the substance that would trigger mating behavior.

His work covers all areas of science, from the quirky mating behaviors of different animals, to the drug and alcohol habits of ancient cultures, to new advances in solar cell technology.

Just like neutering or spaying, this method has the potential to eliminate the unwanted mating behaviors of companion animals without affecting their general health.

The aesthetic theory of evolution that we are proposing also revolves around mating behavior, but it differs from sexual selection.

These results have important implications for understanding mating behavior and perhaps the origin of sex differences in personality.

Although it appears violent, this is normal mating behavior.

If you plan on breeding your pet, be sure to learn about the particular mating behaviors, reproduction processes and health issues specific to your species.

The kitties you're helping will thank you because you'll be saving female cats from the stress of pregnancy and male cats from mating behaviors like fighting and roaming.

Maftei et al. observed mating behavior in the rare and poorly known Ross's gull (Rhodostethia rosea) at a remote Arctic breeding ground for 3 years.

Patterns of parental care and productivity of different combinations of male - female pairs from the same or different selection lines were then examined to see whether selection on mating behavior led to a correlated, co-evolutionary response in parental care behavior.

The authors systematically analyzed a large number of flies in which different patches of neurons lacked dati, and were able to map the rejection behavior to three distinct regions in the brain, two of which had never been previously associated with mating behavior.

[Education] «is commonly used in human mating behavior as a proxy for resources and future provision as it can represent economic advantages,» said researcher Robert Whyte.

Neutering a male kitten before 5 months generally prevents the development of mating behavior such as spraying urine to mark territory.

This suggests that pesticides and other hormone - disrupting chemicals not only may harm those who have close encounters with them, they may also affect mating behavior in later generations.

An unmanaged colony can become a problem with rampant breeding, and the onset of problems that come from mating behaviors (fighting, yowling, etc.).

The spay / neuter procedure also reduces reproductive hormones in cats, which adds to the benefits of TNR by greatly reducing problem mating behaviors like fighting, roaming, yowling, and spraying.

Kissing, which is practiced in almost every human society in various forms, is something of a mystery to those who study mating behavior.

Disruptive mating behaviors also stop, which helps people and cats coexist peacefully.

Mating behaviors cease such as; roaming, yowling, spraying and fighting.

TNR programs stop reproduction and therefore mating behaviors such as fighting, roaming, spraying, yowling or fighting stops.

Problems that are so specific to an individual, that are based upon thousands and thousands of years of human evolution which impulses mating behavior among animals is called upon to be solved by a simple minded world view.

While it's true Taylor was an anomaly, it turns out that as more time becomes available, mating behaviors do begin to shift.

After a class trip to the zoo, the hot topic of conversation for a group of 9 - year - olds is often the funny - looking mating behavior they witnessed between a pair of the zoo's creatures.

Researchers were also excited to learn that the same egg - laying circuit also mediates mating behavior.

«By knowing more about their reproductive biology, we expand our knowledge about trilobite autecology and can begin to address long - standing research questions about trilobite mating behavior and reproductive strategies,» said the team's paper.

New work published today in the journal Ecology Letters, used artificial selection and mating crosses among selection lines to determine if and how mating behaviors co-evolve with parental care behaviors.

The virus was the culprit, acting like other parasitic manipulators to change cricket mating behavior for its own gain.

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, have succeeded in identifying a relatively simple molecule that is able to regulate complex mating behavior in vinegar flies: a fatty acid methyl ester called methyl laurate.

It lights up some spider webs, instigates spider mating behavior and makes certain scorpions, spiders and insects glow in the dark.

Cooling is necessary should you want to breed most reptiles, as the process spurs the animals through hormonal cycles that induce egg and sperm production and the accompanying mating behaviors.

Sterilized animals are less likely to display hormone driven mating behavior like spraying, yowling, or trying to escape the house.

Sterilized cats are also less likely to transmit these diseases, which are largely spread through mating behavior and mating - related fighting.

Scientific studies as well as decades of hands - on experience show that Trap - Neuter - Return programs work to end the breeding cycle, improve the cats» health, and make them better neighbors by ending mating behaviors.

They want to see the cat population stabilized and mating behaviors curbed.

This yowling and other mating behaviors may repeat themselves every 18 - 24 days throughout a cat's eight month breeding season.

Spayed / Neutered cats roam less, don't yowl or fight (typical mating behaviors) 3.

Complaints regarding nuisance cat calls also decreased when cats no longer exhibited mating behaviors such as yowling and spraying.

When all the cats are sterilized, nuisance mating behaviors may disappear.

Spay / neuter will also decrease mating behavior like yowling, roaming and spraying!