Males engage in a two-week-long sex marathon with as many females as they can find. Each frenzied encounter can last up to 14 hours. As soon as he’s done with one female, he moves on to another, ...
Prairie voles are no different from teenagers who fall in love after just one date. These rodents can also form intense ...
Some animals form lifelong pair bonds that run deeper than simple mating. These connections shape how they live, move, and ...
There are some strange mating rituals in the wild. Birds court through dance and song, and some males fight for females’ ...
Fatal attractions are a standard movie plotline, but they also occur in nature, with much more serious consequences. As a conservation biologist, I’ve seen them play out in some of Earth’s most remote ...
For a small number of animals, reproduction marks a biological endpoint rather than a stage in an ongoing life cycle. Death ...