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 ...

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As a general term for the process of achieving contact, capture and connection, the term mating is used. This includes the two cases 'docking' and 'berthing'. The term docking is used for the case ...

Cooperative breeding: A social system in which individuals care for offspring other than their own, usually at the expense of their own reproduction. Cooperative polyandry: A mating system in ...

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Video footage also showed that a male bear had mated with multiple females, confirming a polygamous mating system exists among the Asian black bear, according to scientists. The videos also ...