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  2. Animal sexual behaviour - Wikipedia

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    Analysis of animal genes found evidence that, after humans had diverged from other apes, interspecies mating nonetheless occurred regularly enough to change certain genes in the new gene pool. [163] Researchers found that the X chromosomes of humans and chimps may have diverged around 1.2 million years after the other chromosomes.

  3. Mating - Wikipedia

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    For animals, mating strategies include random mating, disassortative mating, assortative mating, or a mating pool. In some birds, it includes behaviors such as nest-building and feeding offspring. The human practice of mating and artificially inseminating domesticated animals is part of animal husbandry.

  4. Human mating strategies - Wikipedia

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    In evolutionary psychology and behavioral ecology, human mating strategies are a set of behaviors used by individuals to select, attract, and retain mates.Mating strategies overlap with reproductive strategies, which encompass a broader set of behaviors involving the timing of reproduction and the trade-off between quantity and quality of offspring.

  5. Two Male Humpback Whales Caught 'Mating' for the First Time - AOL

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    Related: Video of Humpback Whales Bubble Feeding Is Truly a Sight to Behold Fox 59 reports that scientists have confirmed that both whales were male. They made the call based on pictures of their ...

  6. Sexual coercion among animals - Wikipedia

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    Sexual coercion among animals is the use of violence, threats, harassment, and other tactics to help them forcefully copulate. [1] Such behavior has been compared to sexual assault, including rape, among humans. [2] In nature, males and females usually differ in reproductive fitness optima. [3]

  7. Sexual mimicry - Wikipedia

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    Sexual mimicry is also used as a mate-guarding strategy by some species. Mate-guarding is a process in which a member of a species prevents another member of the same species from mating with their partner. Mate-guarding is seen in Cotesia rubecula, a parasitic wasp from the family Braconidae whose mating system is polygynous. Males are ...

  8. Category:Mating - Wikipedia

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    The articles in this category are primarily about mating in animals, although a few of them (such as mating in yeast and mating in fungi) are about other types of organisms. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mating .

  9. Penis fencing - Wikipedia

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    Penis fencing is a mating behavior engaged in by many species of flatworm, such as Pseudobiceros hancockanus. Species which engage in the practice are hermaphroditic; each individual has both egg-producing ovaries and sperm-producing testes. [1] The flatworms "fence" using extendable two-headed dagger-like stylets.