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No, the peacock's tail results from the mating choices made by peahens.
On the bottom tier, we have basic needs: shelter, clothing, food, water, mating and so forth.
Because the chimps have a very promiscuous mating society.
There's something I'm developing here called social intensity syndrome, which tries to account for why guys really prefer male bonding over female mating.
And she's in the process of mating with this male, and there's another male on top waiting his turn.
And they will live for 15 or 20 years, continuing to lay eggs using the sperm from that original mating.
That is, to send more winged queens and males to that year's mating flight.
So this is the assortative mating hypothesis of these genes reinforcing one another in these structures.
And I've also come to think that it's one of three basically different brain systems that evolved from mating and reproduction.
I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.
This is where evolutionary pressures like eating, mating and making sure we don't get eaten drive deterministic behavioral responses to information in the world.
While they're mating, the male is busy giving the female not just his sperm but also a nutrient-filled package called a nuptial gift.
We can zoom in to look more closely inside this mating pair.
So they reject every possible suitor that turns up in the first 37 percent of the mating season, and then they pick the next fish that comes along after that window that's, I don't know, bigger and burlier than all of the fish that they've seen before.
Female aphids can make little, tiny clones of themselves without ever mating.
But they also compete after mating with their sperm.
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.
You can see two katydids mating in these photos.
Now, the gift is very nutritious, and the female eats it during and after mating.
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.
They hang around until the mating flight, but they don't participate in gathering nectar or pollen.
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.
After mating, the males die off, while females try to establish a new colony.
The few that are successful settle down in a suitable spot, lose their wings, and begin laying eggs, selectively fertilizing some using stored sperm they've saved up from mating.
They would blend right into the algae, which would also fluoresce red, but they've got great vision, and they go through this long mating ritual, and perhaps they're using it in that effect.
And I've been privy to the mating rituals of green sea turtles in the Mozambique Channel.
During mating, they'll rub, slap, or tap the female with these.
And some hoofed mammals, like rams and bulls, use a whip-like extension on the penis's left side to create a sensation during mating.
But how can females really choose between males if she can only assess them after mating?
And I've long ago maintained that we've evolved three distinctly different brain systems for mating and reproduction: sex drive, feelings of intense romantic love and feelings of deep cosmic attachment to a long-term partner.
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