11 Mating Quotes for You to Enjoy

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being. Carl Sagan

World Invent Animals Other Hunger Ourselves Hatched Some Cosmic About Constructed Myths Powerful Know Make Course Make Up Understand How Mating Up Egg Fiat Being Stories After Which Created Based Imagine

The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place. Richard Dawkins

World First Ancestors Bereft Spiders Would-Be Never Supplied Well First Place Male Mating Died After Place Whose

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different. Isabella Rossellini

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One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior. Dian Fossey

Behavior Saving Range Threatened About More Steps Learn Mating Diet Reproductive Processes Patterns Social Species Basic

I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. Helen Fisher

Love Time You Focus Energy Think Conserving Evolved Individual Enable Mating Just Romantic Romantic Love Just One Your Thereby

In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and ignore other subtleties, like if your lipstick is faded. Helen Fisher

Animals use a broad range of strategies to advertise themselves in the mating market. In some instances, visual cues highlight a morphological feature - for example, the peacock's tail. Gad Saad

Example Animals Broad Market Range Visual Some Feature Tail Highlight For Example Advertise Mating Themselves Use Strategies Peacock

The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There's hundreds of species within the genus. They're on every continent except Antarctica, they're in tropical rain forests, they're in deserts, they've evolved many exotic mating behaviors, and they're capable of incredibly long-distance flights. Michael Dickinson

Success Great Rain Every Incredibly Hundreds Evolved Except Tropical Long-Distance Great Success Within Continent Antarctica Mating Exotic Forests Behaviors Stories Capable Success Stories Flights Many Deserts Species

Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song. Peter R. Grant

Song Strictly Thus Along Females Lines Mating Paternal