How To Use polygynous In A Sentence
- When social mating systems were dichotomized, extrapair chicks were twice as frequent in monogamous as in polygynous species.
- Grasslands and prairies support a number of polygynous species as well, including meadowlarks, bobolinks, dickcissels, lark buntings, and great-tailed grackles.
- Similar to its congeners, this sexually dimorphic species is hypothesized to be resource-defense polygynous.
- Gorilla groups are generally polygynous, consisting of one silverback male, his harem of several adult females, their young, and one or more subordinate males.
- However, different investigators have used the term ‘monogamy’ to describe both concepts, whereas in reality they are not synonymous: social monogamy can occur with monogamous, polygynous, and polyandrous mating strategies.
- It follows that parents who leave wealth to sons in polygynous societies will have, on average, more grandchildren than would parents who left wealth equally to daughters and sons.
- They also suggest that individuals are mildly polygynous, having evolved in a system in which one man maintains a harem.
- For example, among polygynous mammals, and thus among most primates, mothers in the best physical condition were originally expected to overproduce males.
- I suspect that few American women, for instance, would be that inclined to enter into polygynous (one man, many women) marriages.
- Gorillas are polygynous in order to capitalize on the approach-avoidance conflict of needing a giant protector who looks scarier than hell but then wondering what to do with him when there is no danger. Dan Wharton, Ph.D.: Are We Really That Different In Love?
