“My favorite guaranteed monogamous creature is a flatworm that parasitizes certain fresh-water fish.” Daniel J. Kruger Professor, Evolutionary Psychology, University of Michigan ...

Cartilaginous fish Although little is known about mating systems in sharks and other cartilaginous fishes, there is evidence that some species such as tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) could be ...

Regardless of your opinion on monogamy, it’s a trait found across many species, from songbirds to fish to many humans. But surprisingly, there are plenty ...

Monogamy, it’s revealed, is embedded in shared molecules across various amphibians, birds, mammals, and fish — despite the fact that monogamy evolved independently in each of these clades.

Source: Moose pair, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public Domain The idea of mating for life went out with the so-called sexual revolution of the 1960s and books like Open Marriage. So why has ...

By fine-tuning the expression of a similar set of genes, mammals, birds, frogs, and fish may have all capitalized on a common toolkit in the transition to monogamy. By Katherine J. Wu Monday ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla., June 9 (UPI) --Chalk bass are more committed to their spouse than their gender.A new study shows the monogamous hermaphrodite fish switch genders up to 20 times a day. The ...

Each pair consisted of one monogamous species and another closely related one that was not. The scientists looked at mice, voles, songbirds, frogs and cichlid fishes.

Female cichlids, a type of monogamous fish that primarily dwells in South America, become depressed and lovesick when their mate is removed and they're placed with a non-preferred male partner, ...

Scientists say the African cichlid Pelvicachromis taeniatus, a small monogamous fish that lives in the rivers and creeks of Cameroon and Nigeria, tend to favor inbreeding. Dreamstime Feb. 6, 2007 ...

Researchers at the University of Burgundy performed a series of tests on convict cichlids – a species of small, monogamous fish native to Central America – to measure their mood and emotional ...