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Meet some mates in the pub for an early evening drink.
We need to elongate the time frame upon which we judge the balance in our life, but we need to elongate it without falling into the trap of the "I'll have a life when I retire, when my kids have left home, when my wife has divorced me, my health is failing, I've got no mates or interests left."
They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators.
I mean, we're hardwired to be interested in beings that might be, if you will, competitors, or if you're the romantic sort, possibly even mates.
But what's beginning to happen is because these geeks are all getting together, because they are highly qualified for computer programming and it is highly remunerated, as well as other very detail-oriented tasks, that they are concentrating geographically and finding like-minded mates.
I hugged a few tradie mates and said, "Please come and see me if you need to."
So, what I know about my Movember journey is that, with a really creative idea, with passion, with persistence, and a lot of patience, four mates, four mustaches, can inspire a room full of people, and that room full of people can go on and inspire a city, and that city is Melbourne, my home.
The first is competitive, because they're looking for mates, and the second is cooperative, because if they're all vocalizing in sync together, it makes it really difficult for predators like coyotes, foxes and owls to single out any individual for a meal.
And what they do for their courtship dance is, they go together, the two of them, the two mates, and they begin to run underwater.
But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean, and because the noise that propellers make underwater is sometimes at the same frequency that whales use, then it can damage their acoustic habitat, and they need this for breeding, for finding feeding grounds, for finding mates.
Worldwide, there are more than 2,000 firefly species, and these have evolved remarkably diverse courtship signals, that is, different ways to find and attract mates.
In still other fireflies, both sexes use quick, bright flashes to find their mates.
It took many millions of years before these bright lights evolved into a smart communication tool that could be used not just to ward off potential predators but to bring in potential mates.
So females are keeping their eyes on this prize as they size up potential mates.
Here's another problem: we've conquered darkness, but in the process, we spill so much extra light out into the night that it disrupts the lives of other creatures, and fireflies are especially sensitive to light pollution because it obscures the signals that they use to find their mates.
They're soft, they're slimy, and I was fascinated by the way they use light in their environment, either to attract mates, for self-defense, or to attract food.
When he finds one, he alights and mates.
My poker mates may have been bluffing about the hands that they drew, but they weren't bluffing about their social beliefs.
We are not the only ones who care about our mates.
There are evolutionary arguments regarding every human mating behavior, from how we display ourselves to potential mates, to how we treat each other in relationships, to how we raise kids.
It lets dogs identify potential mates, or distinguish between friendly and hostile animals.
Smell is one of our most intimate and primal senses, playing a huge role in our attraction to potential mates.
They can be spotted tucking their heads beneath them for warmth, flashing them at prospective mates, sheltering eggs with them, or even using them to steer as they charge across the plains.
They made amends, archenemies became soul mates and Stephanie died in Brooke's arms, and here's our takeaway.
We can do this with our siblings and our mates and our friends and our colleagues.
A little British company called Oxitec genetically modified that mosquito so that when it mates with a wild female, its eggs don't develop to adulthood.
Oxitec designed the mosquito so that when the male mates with the wild female the eggs don't develop.
Now, many people hear these kinds of evolutionary claims and think they mean that we somehow are unconsciously seeking mates who are healthy.
But today he's one of my mum's best mates.
We think that walking is important for getting away from predators and finding mates for breeding.
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