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Necrophilia: This describes when an animal engages in a sexual act with a dead animal. It has been observed in mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs. [122] Bisexuality: This describes when an animal shows sexual behaviour towards both males and females. Extended female sexuality: This is when females mate with males outside of their conceptive period.
The articles in this category are primarily about mating in animals, although a few of them (such as mating in yeast and mating in fungi) are about other types of organisms. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mating .
Animal non-reproductive sexual behavior encompasses sexual activities that non-human animals participate in which do not lead to the reproduction of the species. Although procreation continues to be the primary explanation for sexual behavior in animals, recent observations on animal behavior have given alternative reasons for the engagement in sexual activities by animals. [1]
Sexual learning (a form of associative learning) occurs when an animal starts to associate bodily features, personality, contextual cues, and other stimuli with genitally-induced sexual pleasure. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Once formed, these associations in turn impinge upon both sexual wanting and sexual liking.
In biology, mating is the pairing of either opposite-sex or hermaphroditic organisms for the purposes of sexual reproduction. Fertilization is the fusion of two gametes . [ 1 ] Copulation is the union of the sex organs of two sexually reproducing animals for insemination and subsequent internal fertilization . [ 2 ]
Sexual reproduction is the most common life cycle in multicellular eukaryotes, such as animals, fungi and plants. [6] [7] Sexual reproduction also occurs in some unicellular eukaryotes. [2] [8] Sexual reproduction does not occur in prokaryotes, unicellular organisms without cell nuclei, such as bacteria and archaea.
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Garden snails mating. A hermaphrodite (/ h ər ˈ m æ f r ə ˌ d aɪ t /) is a sexually reproducing organism that produces both male and female gametes. [1] Animal species in which individuals are either male or female are gonochoric, which is the opposite of hermaphroditic.