All Articles Tagged As: reproduction
Cuckoo's detect imposters eggs' by determining UV reflectivity
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 | Scientists used bird song as a model to investigate whether behavioural traits involved in sexual advertisement can serve as good indicators of personality in wild animal ...> Full Article |
 | Researchers have found that female red squirrels showed high levels of multimale mating and would even mate with males that had similar genetic relatedness, basically mating with their relatives. ...> Full Article |
 | Some migratory songbirds figure out the best place to live by eavesdropping on the singing of others that successfully have had baby birds - a communication and behavioral trait so strong that researchers playing recorded songs induced them to nest in places they otherwise would have avoided. ...> Full Article |
A researcher has found that sick female deer mice devote their energy to producing healthier offspring
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 | Discovery opens new avenues of research into the evolution of reproduction on land ...> Full Article |
 | Research has shown that our desperately cute distant cousins use vocalisations to pick up a partner of the right species ...> Full Article |
 | Male seahorses are nature's real-life Mr. Moms - they take fathering to a whole new level: Pregnancy. ...> Full Article |
Female Australian painted dragon lizards are polyandrous, that is, they mate with as many males as they can safely get access to.
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Female mice can steer clear of inbred males on the basis of their scent alone
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 | For decades, scientists have viewed octopuses as unromantic loners, with mating habits nearly devoid of complex behavior. But new research from the University of California, Berkeley, has found that at least one species of octopus engages in such sophisticated lovemaking tactics as flirting, passionate handholding and keeping rivals at arms' length. ...> Full Article |
 | One species of armed beetle is proving that size doesn't necessarily matter when it comes to finding a mate. ...> Full Article |
 | For several years, scientists have been working to determine why so many male smallmouth bass in the Potomac River basin have immature female egg cells in their testes - a form of intersex. They are closer to finding an answer. ...> Full Article |
 | Compelled to mate, yet firmly attached to the rock, barnacles have evolved the longest penis of any animal for their size - up to eight times their body length - so they can find and fertilize distant neighbours. ...> Full Article |
 | Fatherly contacts during children's younger years found to increase their reproductive fitness as adults, especially among daughters ...> Full Article |
 | In the race of evolution, scientists until now have only looked at winners and losers. Now, they've come up with a way to look at the contenders who never made it out of the gate. ...> Full Article |
 | According to Darwin's theory of evolution, individuals in a species pass successful traits onto their offspring through a process called "deterministic inheritance." Over multiple generations, advantageous developmental trends - such as the lengthening of the giraffe's neck - occur. ...> Full Article |
 | Wildebeest Whether you are dealing with the number of wildebeest on the Serengeti or the number of malaria parasites in the human body, new research shows the same ecological framework determines breeding numbers and population size. New research published today (15 January) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Fellow shows that the same community ecology principles that determine how different animal species on the savannah affect each other's population sizes through competition for food and hunting by predators also affect parasite species interacting within the microcosm of a single host. ...> Full Article |
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