In polygyny, one male mates with multiple females during a breeding season. This is the mating system of some primates, lions, and deer ...

Animals also choose their mates, sometimes with a great deal of care. Mating systems are important to understand because they reflect the result of natural selection on mate choice, and ultimately ...

All animals need to make copies of themselves ... new copy if they mix together males and females. That's what we call mating. Females get pregnant after mating. And if they're insects, or ...

Kate Rodriguez-Clark is an animal matchmaking guru. Among her responsibilities as a population ecologist for the Smithsonian, ...

A little something called "mate deprivation," which states that ... refer to as a "strong cohabitation." Since the animals are such different species -- varying widely in phylogenetic and ...

All animals need to make copies of themselves ... new copy if they mix together males and females. That's what we call mating. Females get pregnant after mating. And if they're insects, or ...

After mating, they experience rapid physical decline, which leads to losing energy. Eventually, they become easy prey. This is part of a reproductive strategy called semelparity, where an animal ...