Mild food restriction for 48 h inhibits mating behavior in female musk shrews (Suncus murinus). However, mating behavior is restored after a 90-min feeding bout. In this series of experiments, we examined the role of metabolic fuels in this behavioral restoration. First, drugs reported to block glycolysis or fatty acid oxidation were given 2 h before mating. Both treatments inhibited mating in ...

Queens of the honey bee, Apis mellifera (L.), exhibit extreme polyandry, mating with up to 45 different males (drones). This increases the genetic diversity of their colonies, and consequently their fitness. After copulation, drones leave a mating sign in the genital opening of the queen which has been shown to promote additional mating of the queen. On one hand, this signing behavior is benefi...

to establish the behavioral indicator of reproductive success of female captive alpine musk deer(moschus sifanicus), the focal sampling was used to record the individual behaviors at xinglongshan muskdeer farm (xmdf), gansu province, china. conducted between june 2008 and january 2009, 31 adultfemales were observed, of which 26 had successfully bred in the previous year, and five of which wereb...