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Now males, when they fight, if they're really aggressive, they turn white.
And these two
males
are fighting.
Now, I'm told that's not not just a squid phenomenon with males, but I don't know.
Here's two
males
fighting.
And all of a sudden, one of the news commentators got on the air and she said, "In the last three months, eight unarmed African-American
males
have been killed by police, white homeowners, or white citizens."
The
males
swarm all over the bottles trying to mate.
Now, the
males
had successfully found females for thousands, perhaps millions of years.
And that's important because the
males
use their sperm to compete.
They use these formidable devices like scoops, to remove the sperm from previous
males
that the female has mated with.
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.
The
males
are very picky about who they mate with, because they not only transfer sperm during mating, they also give the female something called a nuptial gift.
And so what that means is the katydid
males
are very choosy about who they offer these nuptial gifts to.
But it also means that the
males
are very passive about mating, whereas the females are extremely aggressive and competitive, in an attempt to get as many of these nutritious nuptial gifts as they can.
Even more generally though,
males
are actually not all that important in the lives of a lot of insects.
He suggested, "OK, if the stinging individuals are going to be the
males
..." Then he got confused, because that would have meant the
males
were also taking care of the young in a colony, and he seemed to think that would be completely impossible.
And what I think we've done, is use males, in any species, as though they are the model system.
And I think that's why we've used
males
as models in a lot of medical research, something that we know now to be a problem if we want the results to apply to both men and women.
Since females only have X's to pass on in their egg cells, and
males
can give either an X or a Y in their sperm cells, the sex is determined by the father and the chance of producing a male or a female is 50/50.
In those groups, a pair of Z sex chromosomes produces a male, so these
males
only have Z's to give.
Now, the queen will mate and then store sperm from the
males.
You see, clownfish all start out their lives as males, However, as they mature, they become female.
And amazingly, if the dominant female in the group dies, the largest and most dominant male will then quickly become female and take her place, and all of the other
males
will move up one rank in the hierarchy.
She was getting too much attention from two new males, and she was the precocious one.
In many species, all the winged
males
and winged virgin queens from all the nearby colonies in the population each leave from their different nests and meet at a central place to mate, using pheromones to guide each other to a breeding ground.
After mating, the
males
die off, while females try to establish a new colony.
They will then defend the colony and forage for food, while unfertilized eggs grow into
males
whose only job is to wait until they are ready to leave the nest and reproduce, beginning the cycle again.
The
males
give birth, just phenomenal creatures.
And
males
and females also have, we're finding, distinct patterns among them.
Despite laying eggs and other adaptations that we associate more with non-mammals, like the duck-bill platypus's webbed feet, bill, and the venomous spur
males
have on their feet, they are, in fact, mammals.
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