An alternative mating strategy is a strategy used by male or female animals, often with distinct phenotypes, that differs from the prevailing mating strategy...

fertilization. The mating plug plays an important role in sperm competition and may serve as an alternative and more advantageous strategy to active mate guarding...

in mating behavior, as in the case of animal sexual behavior in general and assortative mating in particular. Research on human mating strategies is guided...

by modification of sexual function). Mixed mating systems, in which plants use two or even all three mating systems, are not uncommon. A number of models...

aggressive chasing by other males (see § Alternative mating strategies below) Male displacement from tandem and mating begins again; or, the tandem male and...

intra-harem competition among females for resources. A lower-cost alternative mating strategy, useful to bachelors without a harem, is kleptogyny (from Greek...

Male Lesser Bird of Paradise Paradisaea minor : Evidence for an Alternative Mating Strategy?". Emu - Austral Ornithology. 92 (2): 108–111. doi:10.1071/MU9920108...

PMID 29806019. Partridge, Charlyn (2017), "Sneak Copulation as an Alternative Mating Strategy", in Shackelford, Todd K.; Weekes-Shackelford, Viviana A. (eds...

(gunḗ) 'woman, wife') is a mating system in which one male lives and mates with multiple females but each female only mates with a single male. Systems...

may meet alternative mates. This is said to support the female dual mating strategy theory, as during oestrus women may be seeking out mates with strong...

doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.1998.tb00112.x. Thirgood, S. J. (1991). Alternative Mating Strategies and Reproductive Success in Fallow Deer. Behaviour, 116(1/2)...

some male Metellina segmentata have alternative mating strategies. In these cases, alternative mating strategies only work when the reproductive benefits...

investment in humans Sociosexuality Human mating strategies Online dating service Alternative mating strategy Hasson, Oren (1994-04-07). "Cheating Signals"...

Differences in age preferences for mates can stem from partner availability, gender roles, and evolutionary mating strategies, and age preferences in sexual...

give rise to the next generation. Mating in fungi is a complex process governed by mating types. Research on fungal mating has focused on several model species...

including a rare form that mimics the female, use a variety of strategies to obtain mating opportunities at a lek, and the colourful head and neck feathers...

exchange for mating outside the conceptive period. For example, female blackbirds that solicit mating outside the fertile period have increased mate guarding...

in modern society. Human mate poaching is a form of seduction, and can be used as a short-term and long-term mating strategy among both sexes. Moreover...

numerous very different mating strategies are used within different taxa. This article currently focuses primarily on the mating habits of air-breathing...

with males from neighboring communities. These alternative mating strategies give females more mating opportunities without losing the support of the...

copulating with females. The variation in mating success is quite large in lek mating systems with 70–80% of matings being attributed to only 10–20% of the...

is reproductively motivated, it is often termed mating or copulation; for most non-human mammals, mating and copulation occur at oestrus (the most fertile...

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(September 2003). "Proper and dark heroes as DADS and CADS: Alternative mating strategies in British Romantic literature". Human Nature. 14 (3): 305–17...

Perciformes, Tripterygiidae): the adaptive significance of an alternative mating strategy and a red instead of a yellow nuptial colour". Marine Biology...

1979.tb00669.x. Dominey, Wallace (1984). "Alternative Mating Tactics and Evolutionarily Stable Strategies". American Zoology. 24 (2): 385–396. doi:10...

PMC 5031617. PMID 27619696. T.M. Sonneborn (1938). "Mating Types in Paramecium Aurelia: Diverse Conditions for Mating in Different Stocks; Occurrence, Number and...

subfamilies within Bovoidea is still a matter of debate, with several alternative systems proposed. Antelope are not a cladistic or taxonomically defined...

after the mating season, like those in the wild. Their behaviour also changes drastically before and after the mating season. Before mating, males are...

commonly used as a mating strategy to gain access to a mate, a defense mechanism to avoid more dominant individuals, or a survival strategy. It can also be...