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Cicada mating calls attract both male and female flies
Cicada calls, it turns out, attract not just female cicadas, but sarcophagid flies in the mood for love. Unfortunately for cicadas, that’s not all their calls attract. The love song also entice...
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Some frogs mate on land to avoid a ‘breeding frenzy’
Biologists have long thought that some frog species evolved to mate on land—sometimes in unusual places—instead of in open water to better guard eggs and tadpoles from being eaten by fish and other...
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Male fruit flies rationally choose how to rank mates
A complex series of experiments shows that male fruit flies, when presented with a pair of females as potential mating partners, display a key component of rational choice: transitivity. “Transitivity...
View ArticleFemale beauty does more than snag a mate
Female beauty in nature may have less to do with attracting the opposite sex than previously thought. A new mathematical model suggests that romantic attention, by itself, is not enough to give...
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Watch: Cuttlefish use eyes and arms to fight over mate
On a research dive in 2011 off the Aegean Sea coast of the fishing village Çeşmealtı, Turkey, a lucky pair of graduate students got to see two male cuttlefish competing for a mate. It’s a violent,...
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If this spider dances for the wrong mate, she might eat him
Male jumping spiders will try to court whomever, whenever, wherever, but choosing the wrong female can be deadly. For a new study, researchers documented the courting techniques of jumping spiders and...
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How female moths snag guys with big antennae
Male moths with larger antennae are better equipped to detect the low quantities of sex pheromone, a chemical signal, that female moths release to attract mates, research shows. The finding, published...
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7 facts about cicadas, which are ‘tiny violins’
Once the cicadas arrive, broadcasting their piercing buzz from invisible locations in the trees, you know summer has, too. Gene Hall, an entomologist at the University of Arizona, talks about the noisy...
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Bacterial ‘aphrodisiac’ can trigger protist sex swarms
To the surprise of scientists, bacteria can act as an aphrodisiac for the one-celled marine organisms that are the closest living relatives of all animals. This is the first known example of bacteria...
View ArticleWhen male ducks compete, their penises get bigger
Penises of some species of ducks grow extremely long in spring, only to shrink to 10 percent of their maximum size in the fall and winter, report researchers. And it appears that longer penis size has...
View ArticleMosquito sex swap leaves females ‘loyal’
A chemical that the male Aedes aegypti mosquito transfers during sex plays a key role in shaping the female’s sexual proclivities, research shows. The work, from the lab of Leslie B. Vosshall at...
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Some frogs mate on land to avoid a ‘breeding frenzy’
Biologists have long thought that some frog species evolved to mate on land—sometimes in unusual places—instead of in open water to better guard eggs and tadpoles from being eaten by fish and other...
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Male fruit flies rationally choose how to rank mates
A complex series of experiments shows that male fruit flies, when presented with a pair of females as potential mating partners, display a key component of rational choice: transitivity. “Transitivity...
View ArticleFemale beauty does more than snag a mate
Female beauty in nature may have less to do with attracting the opposite sex than previously thought. A new mathematical model suggests that romantic attention, by itself, is not enough to give...
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Watch: Cuttlefish use eyes and arms to fight over mate
On a research dive in 2011 off the Aegean Sea coast of the fishing village Çeşmealtı, Turkey, a lucky pair of graduate students got to see two male cuttlefish competing for a mate. It’s a violent,...
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If this spider dances for the wrong mate, she might eat him
Male jumping spiders will try to court whomever, whenever, wherever, but choosing the wrong female can be deadly. For a new study, researchers documented the courting techniques of jumping spiders and...
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How female moths snag guys with big antennae
Male moths with larger antennae are better equipped to detect the low quantities of sex pheromone, a chemical signal, that female moths release to attract mates, research shows. The finding, published...
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7 facts about cicadas, which are ‘tiny violins’
Once the cicadas arrive, broadcasting their piercing buzz from invisible locations in the trees, you know summer has, too. Gene Hall, an entomologist at the University of Arizona, talks about the noisy...
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Bacterial ‘aphrodisiac’ can trigger protist sex swarms
To the surprise of scientists, bacteria can act as an aphrodisiac for the one-celled marine organisms that are the closest living relatives of all animals. This is the first known example of bacteria...
View ArticleWhen male ducks compete, their penises get bigger
Penises of some species of ducks grow extremely long in spring, only to shrink to 10 percent of their maximum size in the fall and winter, report researchers. And it appears that longer penis size has...
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