In polygyny, one male mates with multiple females during a breeding season. This is the mating system of some primates, lions, and deer ...

Animals also choose their mates, sometimes with a great deal of care. Mating systems are important to understand because they reflect the result of natural selection on mate choice, and ultimately ...

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

Primates practice different mating styles but empowered females help create harmonious families. Humans could learn from them ...

One reason for that could be that the full complexity of animal mating systems has only become clear thanks ... members of a pair might arrive at breeding sites at different times, or not at all, ...

All animals need to make copies of themselves ... new copy if they mix together males and females. That's what we call mating. Females get pregnant after mating. And if they're insects, or ...