The first class includes eating, avoiding injury, and many others; the second class includes the herd instinct, the mating instinct and the parental instinct, these three and perhaps no others.
In point of complexity, we find a graded series ranging from the pupillary reflex at one extreme to the nesting or mating instinct at the other, and no sharp line can be drawn on this score between the reflexes and the instincts.
The mating instinct, in unsophisticated members of the human species, is another perfect example.
But in mammals there is no such continuous series of reproductive acts, but mating comes to a close and an interval elapses in which there is no behavior going on that has anything to do with reproduction.
In the meantime the turkey hen having had her run has forgotten all about sitting, and has started to laying again and I put her back in the mating pen.
Pre-atomics and their ideas about free mating always fascinated people.
Casual mating would be terribly dangerous, of course, with all the wild irradiated genes from the atomic decade still around, but I felt I'd be willing to risk that.
He said, "Of course you understand that we must submit your application to the woman authorized to spend time in the mating booths with you, and that she has the right to refuse.
Funny, I hadn't thought aboutmating until it became impossible.
I would like to be in a mating booth with her, I thought, the full authorized twenty minutes.
I waited for a call in the next few weeks, still hoping, but I knew no woman would consent to meet a man with my name, let alone enter a mating booth with him.
I'd heard rumors that in that desolate land, on that desolate planet, both mingling and mating were rather disgustingly unrestricted.
The child learns that birds lay eggs and hatch them out: he also learns when the mating season begins: that males and females are needed: that both jointly assume the building of the nests, the hatching and the care of the young.
During the mating season the males of some of our birds may often be seen dashing themselves against a window, and pecking and fluttering against the pane for hours at a time, day after day.
It expresses its joy at the return of spring and the mating season in its drum, as do the woodpeckers.
This the quadrupeds do not do; there is no period of courtship among them, and no mating or pairing as among the birds.
Yet it is certain that it is during the mating and breeding season that these "song combats" occur, and the favor of the female would seem to be the matter in dispute.
In the mating season the female may be seen perching -- a posture one rarely catches her gay lover in -- preening her dainty but sombre feathers with ladylike nicety.
It is only in the mating season, when we rarely hear them, that the longspurs have the angelic manner of singing as they fly, like the skylark.
In the peculiar flight-song in which he indulges in the mating season, beating the air vertically with his round, open wings, his tones are fairly ecstatic.
In Florida I have seen large flocks of the white ibis performing striking evolutions high up against the sky, evidently expressive of the gay and festive feeling begotten by the mating instinct.
Exogamy and the Mating of Cousins (in Essays presented to Tylor, Oxford, 1907).
I have witnessed the embraces of snails, and the performance described above does not resemble, in the slightest degree, the manoeuvres executed at such times by mating individuals.
That grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets can hear, no one who has observed these creatures during the matingseason will for one instant deny; they hear readily and well, for in most of them the sense of hearing is remarkably acute.
Naturalists have heretofore considered this swarming to be a mating of the two sexes.
Although the grooming that occurs between voles that are resting in nests seems to have no direct significance as sexual behavior, somewhat similar actions constitute part of the mating pattern.
In captivity, at least, such attacks would soon discourage a male so that unless he was exceptionally active sexually, mating was prevented.
As a young male pheasant in mating time dons finer gloss and brilliancy of plumage, perhaps he too bloomed and all unconscious developed added colour and inches and gallant swing of tread.
It would have been his heart that would have been broken if she had said "No" instead of whispering the soft "Yes" of a little mating bird, which had always been her answer when he had asked anything of her.
There was the note of a little matingbird in the repeated word.
This freedom gained they learned to strike the fire; they took one woman to keep the cave, instead of mating indiscriminately in the forest, thus marking the beginning of family life.
The lesser songsters were already matingand nesting, and he found secret pleasure in their cheery calls and bustling activity.
Wild duck, plover, and snipe have entered upon the enjoyment of a summer truce that will be unbroken, if the collector is not abroad at whose hands science ruthlessly demands mating birds and callow brood.
To-day, doubtless, he is practicing the allurements of the mating season.
All nature seemed smiling, for was it not its mating season?
Therefore, she can have no other motive for marrying a man than that of mating herself to a true companion.
Where the trees are all in blossom, And the mating birds they sing Fit to bust their little bodies, Out of joy because it’s Spring.
Tadpoles and mating calls are available for only one species, O.
Trueb and Duellman (1970) described the eggs, tadpoles, mating call, and variation in the adults.
Nor can the influence of such a proposed separation of mating and parenthood upon the sex-relationship itself be ignored in any proposed new ways of living together.
The question, again, for those who are agreed that they want to start a family as well as begin a mating is definitely to be considered, namely, that of the right time to begin the family they wish to have.
This, in fact, is securely based on what we know from the experience supplied by artificial selection, which consists in the intentional mating of like with like to the exclusion of unlike.
Jolly Roger made no answer, but held her a long time in his arms, with the soft beating of her heart against him, and listened to the twitter and song of nesting and mating things about them.
Vainly he tried to lift up his soul with the song and bustle of mating things.
It was never the mating call of heart to heart; he had never felt for her the overwhelming passion of a lover for the woman in whom, for him, all earthly things are bound up.
Another element of influence in this connection is the fact that human beings are not bound to a definite mating season, but that children are begotten at any time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
