Sentences with phrase «mating behaviour»

But determining effects on mating behaviour «takes more meticulous work».

There are six steps involved in worm mating behaviour.

However, such mating behaviour is not desirable at all times.

-- In females it prevents mating behaviour and false pregnancy.

Allyson Whittaker and Paul Sternberg of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, study the nervous control of mating behaviour in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.

The first ever peek into the elusive mating behaviours of great white sharks has revealed some strange behaviour — one interpretation of which is that males show off side - by - side in front of choosy females in order to secure a mate.

Pillar Corals form a unique «smoke stack» shape like no other coral species, and they display unusual mating behaviour compared to most spawning coral species.

This happened in autumn, and pandas mate in spring, so it was probably not mating behaviour.

Many fish species have external fertilization and similar mating behaviours, facilitating interbreeding.

Besides special setae at the tips of their feet, which likely prevent the animals from sinking into the sand, the eight - legged creatures are characterized by their interesting mating behaviour.

Mating behaviours cease, like roaming, yowling, spraying and fighting.

Back in their territory, they will be less prone to fighting, roaming and mating behaviours associated with intact cats and, best of all, they will no longer contribute to an increasing feline population.

Caretakers feed the cats and provide shelter and veterinary care, including spay / neuter surgery, which reduces or eliminates nuisance mating behaviour and prevents more unwanted kittens from being born.

Feral cats can cause neighbourhood problems as they forage for food, and when they display noisy mating behaviour.

The dachshund was producing aberrant pheromones which triggered mating behaviour in the cat.

IT WAS while finishing his PhD on the mating behaviour of sticklebacks that Steven Le Comber found himself drawn to a life of crime.

Mating behaviours were also unaffected.

Min Tan of the Guangdong Entomological Institute in Guangzhou, China, and colleagues captured 30 male and 30 female short - nosed fruit bats in Yuexiu Park in Guangzhou City and observed their mating behaviour in enclosures.

Nest protection and mating behaviour are altered by low levels of pharmaceuticals and antibacterials.

Swedish biologists have found that a grouse's life can be much more solitary, and they say this shows that the birds» mating behaviour is far more open to outside influences than had been believed.

He claims that this is «incontrovertible evidence» that birds» mating behaviour is not genetically fixed, and can adapt to environmental changes.

Many species of bird are distinct primarily in their mating behaviour, even though they are interfertile, as is the case with lions and tigers.

«They do courtship and mating behaviours that females and males would do,» one keeper said in an interview.