"It could be a way for them to show their rank or it may simply be an alternative
mating strategy in terms of transferring to a new group to gain mating opportunities," says Walker-Bolton, who also served as a consultant on the IMAX film Island of Lemurs Madagascar.
Apparently the male horned dung beetle evolved its super strength as a
mating strategy - which conjures up several bizarre images.
The findings suggested that this
mating strategy has a long history in primates, including humans, and may be widespread across social mammals--especially when males of a species are typically larger than females.
This short-term
mating strategy highlights shifts in preferences that highlight increased genetic fitness.
One possible solution is a reciprocal
mating strategy. If both partners assume both roles, then they take on the same costs and benefits, alleviating potential conflict (Sella, 1988).
In other words, by the time a buck is 2 1/2 years old, his
mating strategy is similar to the more mature bucks.
Joy travels to New Zealand to uncover the dusky dolphins'
mating strategy, while Mark travels to Mexico to find out why whales swim so far to mate.
DOLPHINS: BORN IN THE WILD Channel 4, 8pm Joy Reidenberg heads to New Zealand to uncover the
mating strategy of dusky dolphins, and shows how marine mammals such as the harbour porpoise have evolved to reproduce in the ocean.
Our observations demonstrate that, in addition to polygyny (Peak et al., 2010), cooperative breeding is an alternative
mating strategy for golden-cheeked warblers.
Bernard also shows interest in long-term commitment, a
mating strategy definitively discouraged by his culture but activated in him, presumably, by his poor success rate with short-term tactics.
In CD, like CY and CL, the same
mating strategy has been in place since 2004, and the corresponding inbreeding was also observed to decrease (Figure 5).
The dark triad: Facilitating a short-term
mating strategy in men.
