Animal Mating Behavior:

Terms Related to Animal Mating Behavior

• 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.

• Lordosis

  The anterior concavity in the curvature of the lumbar and cervical spine as viewed from the side. The term usually refers to abnormally increased curvature ...

• Sib Mating

  The mating of plants or non-human animals which are closely related genetically.

• Mating Types

  The genetic material of fungi. It includes mating type genes of SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE.

• Copulins

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