I know that many of these women connect
with multiple males at once because it boosts their ego.
A female can and will breed
with multiple males, and one litter of kittens can have more than one father.
4 She continues to mate — the drones aren't terribly smart, apparently — until she collects more than 70 million sperm
from multiple males.
«The movement patterns of these lizards revealed not only that a majority of males (60 percent) encountered multiple females but also that most females (78 percent)
encountered multiple males over the first three months of the breeding season.
A female red - sided garter snake is surrounded
by multiple males trying to mate with her in a huge mating aggregation in Manitoba, Canada.
This work consists
of multiple male profile silhouettes made in Corian, a calcareous, heavy, and seductive material conventionally employed in the production of kitchen worktops.
But in a species where groups
include multiple males, the best way to ensure passing on more genes is to make more sperm — by building bigger testes.
Female chimpanzees have sex with
multiple males while ovulating, so a male that can produce more sperm has a better chance of dislodging other males» sperm and a better chance of his own sperm's survival.
«Because females of most species mate with
multiple males within a reproductive cycle, intrasexual competition and intersexual choice can continue in the form of sperm competition and cryptic female choice,» says Pitnick.
The most socially complex of the bees, they thrived in colonies led by the egg - laying queen, who ensured the genetic fitness of her progeny by breeding with
multiple male drones from other colonies.
Evolutionarily, the only successful defense in females appears to be polyandry: Females that mate with
multiple males make it hard for any one male to know that he is, or is not, the father of her offspring.
Mating plugs transferred to female mosquitoes
prevent multiple male partners, change physiology, and favor parasite development.
If a female dog goes into heat and is willing to mate with
multiple male dogs, she might just end up pregnant with a litter of half - siblings.
Their finding: The species» movement behavior can be more dynamic than previously thought, leading females to frequently
encounter multiple males and suggesting the possibility that female mate choice may be an important selective force.
Queens of ants and bees normally obtain a lifetime supply of sperm on a single day of sexual activity, and sperm competition is expected to occur in lineages where queens receive sperm
from multiple males.
For instance, I have successfully kept dart frogs together — even
with multiple males — by providing a large number of hide spaces in a fairly massive tank.
The correct polygamist relationship is one with
multiple males — all employed - and if there's enough men in a marrige working together towards the same goal — pleasing the woman of course — just maybe they will eventually figure out how to make at least one woman happy.
Moreover, by mating with
multiple males, some researchers have argued, paternity becomes confused.
Females hold several eggs at any one time, and will often breed with
multiple males.
So why would a female prairie dog take the risk to mate with
multiple males?
«Do female birds mate with
multiple males to protect their young?.»
The females in her studies are promiscuous and mate with
multiple males, which we also know that blue tit females do.»
We also know that the females that have had their brood attacked by predators will be more likely to mate with
multiple males the following year.
«In many species, such as the blue tit, females often mate with
multiple males.
A new analysis of courtships from thousands of encounters between finches, as well as genetic analyses of paternity, reveals that the female offspring of more promiscuous males are more likely to mate with
multiple males themselves.
When a female worm mates with
multiple males, the sperm jostle each other, competing for access to the eggs.
Bigger ones tended to be either a single male with many females, or
multiple males and females.
Females of the red jungle fowl mate with
multiple males, including brothers.
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.
But in the last four decades scientists have discovered that, in most species, females mate with
multiple males, and that paternity of offspring in a single brood is often mixed.
Seeking a female actor aged 22 — 50 to portray a mom, a male actor aged 0 — 15 for the title role, and
multiple male and female actors ages 18 and up to depict parents at a little league game, the spot will shoot either April 29 or 30 in Los Angeles, California.
ëLiberated» females lay eggs in several nests built by
the multiple male mates who tend, hatch and raise chicks.
By voicing and embodying
these multiple male perspectives, the performance engages long - standing debates about gender and women's liberation, and in doing so it recalls some of the key concerns of feminist movements past and present.