Some articles on males, male:
... Males loosely gather in an arena and compete with each other to attract females ... Females listen to the males as they display, or "lek" ... his display they are not pursued by the males in any overt way ...
... Adult males are usually solitary outside of the breeding season, but females and their offspring (both sub-adult males and females) live in groups called sounders ... going of farrowing females, the migration of maturing males (usually when they reach around 20 months) and the arrival of unrelated sexually active males ... The male lowers its head, charges, and then slashes upward with its tusks ...
... is primarily secreted in the testicles of males and the ovaries of females, although small amounts are also secreted by the adrenal glands ... It is the principal male sex hormone and an anabolic steroid ... In men, testosterone plays a key role in the development of male reproductive tissues such as the testis and prostate as well as promoting secondary sexual ...
... Chimp mating tends to be promiscuous, with females mating with multiple males in her community during estrus ... As such, males have large testicles for sperm competition ... A community's dominant males sometimes restrict reproductive access to females ...
... the receptacle seminis, in which sperm cells from males can be stored temporarily or for longer periods ... Males possess two separate testes, along with the corresponding sperm vesicle (the vesicula seminalis) and exit channel (the vasa efferentia) ... A penis-like structure has so far only been found in males of the genus Paraperipatus but has not yet been observed in action ...
Famous quotes containing the word males:
“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose: at the festival of unleavened bread, at the festival of weeks, and at the festival of booths. They shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed; all shall give as they are able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 16:16,17.
“If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections.... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.”
—Newt Gingrich (b. 1943)
“For a boy to reach adulthood feeling that he knows his father, his father must allow his emotions to be visible—hardly an easy task when most males grow up being either subtly or openly taught that this is not acceptable behavior. A father must teach his son that masculinity and feelings can go hand in hand.”
—Kyle D. Pruett (20th century)