Animal Sex: News and Features

Synthetic pheromones cold be used to lure the invasive species.

Some mosquitoes attract mates with sophisticated love songs.

Biologists confirm a female shark got pregnant without mating with a male.

If males are small, they're easier to catch and therefore more likely to be prey.

Zoos across country look for mates for rare species on online portals.

This new finding might do Barry White proud.

When males monkeys outnumber females, females often prove the dominant sex.

Females shack up with each other for years and take turns raising offspring.

Male songbirds woo females much like the way cell phone companies lure customers, a new study finds.

Some wasps really, really, really love Australian tongue orchids.

Male Amazon river dolphins like to show off for females, like many human males.

Gorillas mating behavior surprises scientists.

Barnacles stretch themselves to the limit to mate.

Fish try to get too wild with the wrong species.

Male macaque monkeys pay for sex by grooming females.

Female monkeys may shout during sex to help their male partners climax.

Among some antelopes, the battle of the sexes runs in reverse.

It might be a treasured value in many human cultures, but monogamy is rare in the animal kingdom at large. Yet that doesn't mean it's boring.

From male killer whales that ride the dorsal fin of another male to female bonobos that rub their genital together, the animal kingdom tolerates all kinds of lifestyles.