Making a meal of it: Praying mantis cannibalism explained
When a female praying mantis bites the head off her sexual partner, it is probably not out of anger.
Plants & Animals
Jun 29, 2016
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News tagged with male partner
Competition among human females likely contributed to concealed ovulation
Human females rely on aids like charting, test strips or wearable tech to identify periods of fertility. Some animals, like baboons, undergo obvious physical changes during ovulation. How did fertility become so hard to detect ...
Evolution
Jan 25, 2021
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Sperm help 'persuade' the female to accept pregnancy
Sperm are generally viewed as having just one action in reproduction—to fertilize the female's egg—but studies at the University of Adelaide are overturning that view.
Cell & Microbiology
May 17, 2021
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Monogamous birds... peeping on the neighbors!
(PhysOrg.com) -- It is well documented that male birds seduce females using their songs, colourful plumage and courtship dances. These signals reflect male genetic quality and will be graded by the female to determine a male's ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 27, 2012
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Study of finches shows they form homosexual alliances
A new study by a team of researchers shows that for zebra finches, bonding trumps sex. Post-Doc fellow Julie Elie of the University of California and her team describe in the journal Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, ...
Coevolution not healthy for the female sea monkey
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study titled Male-Female Coevolution in the Wild: Evidence from a Time Series in Artemia Franciscana and published in Evolution, evolutionary ecologist Nicolas Rode from the Centre for Functional ...
Twisted-wing parasites feel no pain
Reproduction in the insect order Strepsiptera—also known as twisted-wing parasites—is not for the fainthearted. To inseminate the eggs of its partner, the male partner injures the "neck" of the female with its hook-shaped ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 16, 2022
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These male spiders catapult at impressive speeds to flee their mates before they get eaten
After males of the orb-weaving spider Philoponella prominens mate with a female, they quickly launch themselves away, researchers report on April 25 in the journal Current Biology. Using a mechanism that hadn't been described ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 25, 2022
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The 'in-law effect': Male fruit flies sleep around but females keep it in the family
Male fruit flies like to have a variety of sexual partners, whereas females prefer to stick with the same mate – or move on to his brothers.
Plants & Animals
Sep 24, 2013
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New book explains extraordinary gender differences in animal kingdom
What does it mean to be male or female in the animal kingdom? How do our own gender differences compare with those of other animals? Why do adult male elephant seals weigh more than four times as much as an adult female? ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 11, 2013
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