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And the way that they did this was they would only feature girls on the boxes or in the commercials, and there would be flowery prints all over the ovens and it would be in bright pink and purple, very gender-specific colors to females, right?

And they live in maternity colonies, which means that every spring, the females meet after the winter hibernation, and they stay together for about six months to rear their young, and they all carry a very small chip, which means that every time one of them enters one of these specially equipped bat boxes, we know where she is, and more importantly, we know with whom she is.

You brought some examples: The females are the social ones, the females are the dominant ones, I'm not sure who thinks how.

He was perplexed by the sexual swellings of certain primates, including chimps and bonobos, because these sexual swellings tend to provoke many males to mate with the females.

Eggs are very expensive to make, so it makes sense for females to be very choosy about who she shares them with.

So going back to our biological minds, then, we might think that females should choose to have sex with the guys that have the shorter appendages, because she can use her time for other things: avoiding predators, taking care of young, finding and ingesting food.

But biologists have repeatedly observed that females choose to have sex with the males that have the long appendages.

Now males have been observed to prod the female's genital opening prior to copulating with her, and in what I have lovingly termed the Magnum, P.I. hypothesis, females are overwhelmingly more likely to be found with males that have these fish mustaches.

Now interestingly, there are a few mammalian species in which females have evolved specialized genitalia that doesn't allow for sexual coercion to take place.

Now, even more interesting is the fact that elephant and hyena societies are entirely matriarchal: they're run by females, groups of females, sisters, aunts and offspring, and when young males attain sexual maturity, they're turfed out of the group.

The sexual strategies and reproductive structures that we see in the animal kingdom basically dictate how males and females will react to each other, which then dictates how populations and societies form and evolve.

And while there's no good surgery for females to males genitally, the male-to-female surgery has fooled gynecologists.

One of the genetic factors that we don't understand, however, is the difference that we see in terms of males and females.

Males are affected four to one compared to females with autism, and we really don't understand what that cause is.

Instead, males used their fantastic antennae to sniff out perfumes given off by their females.

In other fireflies, it's only the females who light up.

But meanwhile, where are all the females?

They have plenty of males to choose from, and these females turn out to be very picky.

So what exactly do these females consider sexy?

When we tested females using blinking LED lights, we discovered they prefer males who give longer-lasting flashes.

So females are keeping their eyes on this prize as they size up potential mates.

We discovered that females use male flash signals to try to predict which males have the biggest gifts to offer, because this bling helps the female lay more eggs and ultimately launch more of her own offspring into the next generation.

Dubbed "femme fatales" by Jim Lloyd, another colleague, these females have figured out how to target the males of other firefly species.

Unable to make their own toxins, these females resort to drinking the blood of other fireflies to get these protective chemicals.

In other words, what these females are doing is they're laying 68 percent of their eggs in the medicinal milkweed.

They lose all interest in the real females.

Now, the males had successfully found females for thousands, perhaps millions of years.

In Egypt, for instance, 91 percent of all the females that live in Egypt today have been sexually mutilated in that way.

So, people have this idea that nature dictates kind of a 1950s sitcom version of what males and females are like.

So that males are always supposed to be dominant and aggressive, and females are passive and coy.

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