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  2. Polyandry in animals - Wikipedia

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    Polygyny is where one male mates with several females in a breeding season (e.g., lions, deer, some primates, and many systems where there is an alpha male). [1] A common example of polyandrous mating can be found in the field cricket ( Gryllus bimaculatus ) of the invertebrate order Orthoptera (containing crickets, grasshoppers, and ...

  3. Horse breeding - Wikipedia

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    The male parent of a horse, a stallion, is commonly known as the sire and the female parent, the mare, is called the dam. [1] Both are genetically important, as each parent genes can be existent with a 50% probability in the foal. Contrary to popular misuse, "colt" refers to a young male horse only; "filly" is a young female.

  4. Polygyny in animals - Wikipedia

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    Gorilla Great reed warbler. When two animals mate, they both share an interest in the success of the offspring, though often to different extremes. Unless the male and female are perfectly monogamous, meaning that they mate for life and take no other partners, even after the original mate's death, the amount of parental care will vary. [7]

  5. Polygynandry - Wikipedia

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    Polygynandry is a mating system in which both males and females have multiple mating partners during a breeding season. [1] In sexually reproducing diploid animals, different mating strategies are employed by males and females, because the cost of gamete production is lower for males than it is for females. [2]

  6. Mule - Wikipedia

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    The mule is a domestic equine hybrid between a donkey and a horse.It is the offspring of a male donkey (a jack) and a female horse (a mare). [1] [2] The horse and the donkey are different species, with different numbers of chromosomes; of the two possible first-generation hybrids between them, the mule is easier to obtain and more common than the hinny, which is the offspring of a male horse ...

  7. Dan Campbell 'purse dog' wows fans as Detroit Lions coach ...

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    Lions head coach Dan Campbell, in all of his 6-foot-5 masculinity, is a little dog man.. A photo posted to Instagram Monday by Campbell's wife, Holly Campbell, showed the pair clinking venti ...

  8. Dogs don't actually age 7 times faster than humans, new study ...

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    Say you have a 4-year-old Labrador named Comet — with the new equation, Comet's real "dog age" would be slightly older than 53. The reason for the difference is actually pretty simple.

  9. Sexual dimorphism - Wikipedia

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    In some species, the male's contribution to reproduction ends at copulation, while in other species the male becomes the main (or only) caregiver. Plumage polymorphisms have evolved to reflect these differences and other measures of reproductive fitness, such as body condition [ 71 ] or survival. [ 72 ]