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  2. Human mating strategies - Wikipedia

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    The reason that extrinsic mortality appears to do so is that it increases competition within populations: it is more accurate to say that harsh environments create situations of high competition, in which people are more likely to adopt fast strategies to maximize their chances of reproduction, than it is to say that individuals in harsh ...

  3. Polygyny in animals - Wikipedia

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    Gorilla Great reed warbler. When two animals mate, they both share an interest in the success of the offspring, though often to different extremes. Unless the male and female are perfectly monogamous, meaning that they mate for life and take no other partners, even after the original mate's death, the amount of parental care will vary. [7]

  4. Coolidge effect - Wikipedia

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    This could even possibly force females to seek more copulation to ensure successful reproduction. [20] These types of evidence of sperm allocation would suggest that Coolidge effect will determine how much sperm is invested into females, and if possible, sperm will be allocated so that sperm can be evenly distributed for multiple mates.

  5. Selective breeding - Wikipedia

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    Artificial reproduction was not achieved because of the difficulties in hatching or feeding some farmed species such as eel and yellowtail farming. [24] A suspected reason associated with the late realization of success in selective breeding programs in aquaculture was the education of the concerned people – researchers, advisory personnel ...

  6. Rut (mammalian reproduction) - Wikipedia

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    A white-tail doe may be in estrus for up to 72 hours and may come into estrus up to seven times if she does not mate. Cows may come into estrus up to four or more times if they do not mate. Some people believe that it is possible that does can enter a second estrus around 28 to 30 days from its first estrus if the doe isn't bred.

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  8. Beef cattle - Wikipedia

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    In beef production there are three main stages: cow-calf operations, backgrounding, and feedlot operations. The production cycle of the animals starts at cow-calf operations; this operation is designed specifically to breed cows for their offspring. From here the calves are backgrounded for a feedlot.

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