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 ...

Two different groups of macaques have been spotted in Japan mounting sika deer. The behavior could be part of a shared ...

Evolutionary biologist Nathan H. Lents details how animal relationships can offer perspective on sexual diversity, social ...

Lobsters, like most animals, need to reproduce and have lots of offspring to ensure the survival of their species. Lobsters, ...

Scientists, stumped by that question throughout the animal kingdom ... offspring of birds with fewer eyespots. This way of choosing a mate is just one type of sexual selection: members of one ...

How do animals choose a mate, rear their young, avoid predators, find a meal and communicate with each other? These problems and applications of behavioural ecology to pest control and conservation ...

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 ...

Size, colour and shape can all be reasons for animals to choose one individual over another as a mate. But in some species, behaviours that look like intricate dance steps play a very important role.