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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientists, stumped by that question throughout the animal kingdom, hypothesized that something more than chemistry drives mate choice. Looks are certainly important for the peacock, with his ...

spare a thought for our friends in the animal kingdom. In The Mating Game, a new BBC One natural history documentary series, Sir David Attenborough narrates the different struggles creatures go ...