The first thirty years of his life he remained unmated and for the last thirty-two he has been the proud possessor of a mate from whose side he has never strayed.
Marries Less Often ΒΆ This naturally leads to the unmated life which characterizes so many men and women of the Osseous type.
Afterwards I found that they were unmated hens waiting for mates to come to them, and that this was a very common custom among them.
Later, when the rookery was getting filled up, and only a few birds remained unmated in that vast crowd of some three-quarters of a million, her chances were not so good.
Unmated females are not so readily noticed except when there are only a few birds in the loft, but by close watching they will soon be found.
Perhaps this man might have seen his own behaviour in a truer light had he known that some creatures simply die if unmated (see p.
For suffering and even death of unmated females, see e.
And poor old Europe will then not be worth while for the rest of our lives--a vast grave and ruin where unmated women will mourn and starvation will remain for years to come.
That strength ruled here was obvious from the way in which the wedded birds drove away their unmated rivals, a proceeding in which their wives most thoroughly sympathised.
And even if sexual selection, conscious or unconscious, could be demonstrated in the lower animals, yet the small percentage of unmated individuals indicates that its importance in evolution could not be very great.
If these unmated individuals differ in any important respect from the married part of the population, preferential mating will be evident.
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