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  2. Sensory trap hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    It is a model of female preference and male sexual trait evolution through what is known as sensory exploitation. [1] [2] Sensory exploitation, or a sensory trap is an event that occurs in nature where male members of a species perform behaviors or display visual traits that resemble a non-sexual stimulus which females are responsive to. This ...

  3. Display (zoology) - Wikipedia

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    Communication is important for animals throughout the animal kingdom. For example, since female praying mantids are sexually cannibalistic, the male typically uses a cryptic form of display. [2] This is a series of creeping movements executed by the male as it approaches the female, with freezing whenever the female looks towards the male.

  4. Sexual coercion among animals - Wikipedia

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    For example, female water striders, Gerridae, [21] and marine snails of the genus Littorina have to carry the males on their backs while they mate. First of all, this is a great loss of energy. [21] Second, both the male and the female are at a much greater risk of predation in this position. [6]

  5. Spider forces male fireflies to flash like females to set a ...

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    A video camera observed what happened to free-flying male fireflies subsequently trapped by the webs in four different scenarios involving two different variables: whether a spider was in the web ...

  6. Sexual mimicry - Wikipedia

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    A ‘second female’ is sometimes seen during male-female interaction in close proximity to the couple. This female-looking cuttlefish has the same black blotches as a real female. If the male leaves to fight other males, this individual approaches the female and copulates with her, usually with success.

  7. Sexpionage - Wikipedia

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    In the Soviet Union, female agents assigned to use such tactics were referred to as swallows, while male ones were known as ravens. A commonly known type of sexpionage is a honey trap operation, which is designed to compromise an opponent sexually [1]: 230 to elicit information from that person.

  8. With clay target league to begin, top shooters, coach explain ...

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    His cousin, Bailey Liska, is the reigning female USA high school sporting clays champion first place varsity shooter. The 17-year-old is a junior on the Connellsville Area High School sporting ...

  9. List of fictional rodents - Wikipedia

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    A print showing cats and mice from a 1501 German edition of Aesop's Fables. This list of fictional rodents is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals and covers all rodents, including beavers, mice, chipmunks, gophers, guinea pigs, hamsters, marmots, prairie dogs, porcupines and squirrels, as well as extinct or prehistoric species.