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Sexual Behavior. Group one. Pheromones. Males and females of certain species produce this. It is a chemical substance that attracts the opposite sex. It can be found in urine when they are in heat. Lots of males smell this when it is dispersed.
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Sexual Behavior Group one
Pheromones Males and females of certain species produce this. It is a chemical substance that attracts the opposite sex. It can be found in urine when they are in heat. Lots of males smell this when it is dispersed. A behavior response to this is when they lift there head and curl its upper lip. This is called flehmen.
Males Reactions In a group of sexually active cows, the bull is attracted to a cow in heat most often by visual means (like a cow to cow mount). Rather the Olfactory (Smell) clues.
Preferential Mating Male chickens and turkeys show a preference for certain females and may even refuse to mate with one. Likewise a female chicken or turkey can do the same to a male and is quite often. The preferential mating is a bigger problem chickens as in turkeys you can AI.
Intact males have more aggressive behavior that castrates of most animals.
Courtship Behavior Its instinctive Courtship Behavior is a behavior that males and females of a species carry out before mating. Like other instinctive behaviors, courtship has evolved through natural selection.
I think that animal species must occasionally adapt their courtship behaviors for survival in the wild. If they couldn't they would be unable to recognize other members of the same species.