Animal Mating Behavior:

Terms Related to Animal Mating Behavior

• Sexual Pheromones

  Pheromones that elicit sexual attraction or mating behavior usually in members of the opposite sex in the same species.

• Appetitive Behavior

  Animal searching behavior. The variable introductory phase of an instinctive behavior pattern or sequence, e.g., looking for food, or sequential courtship patterns prior to mating.

• Sex Attractants

  Pheromones that elicit sexual attraction or mating behavior usually in members of the opposite sex in the same species.

• Inbred Strains Animal

  Animals produced by the mating of littermates or siblings over multiple generations. The resultant strain of animals is virtually identical genotypically. Highly inbred animal lines ...