Animals also choose their mates ... but relatively few males mate successfully (Figure 2). Those males that do mate tend to mate with many females-thus a few males have very high reproductive ...

In 2015, on Japan’s forested island of Yakushima, a male macaque jumped up onto the back of a female sika deer and started trying to mate with it ... it’s the same animal.

Kate Rodriguez-Clark is an animal matchmaking guru. Among her responsibilities as a population ecologist for the Smithsonian, ...

For two weeks every mating season, a male will mate as much ... That little crustacean has proportionally the longest penis of any animal on earth spanning up to 10 times his body size.

(These birds are among the rare animals that hide to mate.) “Their females will mimic the flashes of females from other species and lure the males over for mating,” says Seago. “When the ...

Working out the kinks of mating in the animal kingdom helps to gain insights ... which is why we were able to successfully conduct this experiment." The group's latest experiment showed that ...