{"id":173795,"date":"2023-10-08T17:27:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T22:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/study-says-female-animals-teach-each-other-to-choose-male-partners"},"modified":"2023-10-08T17:27:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T22:27:49","slug":"study-says-female-animals-teach-each-other-to-choose-male-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/study-says-female-animals-teach-each-other-to-choose-male-partners","title":{"rendered":"Study says female animals teach each other to choose male partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-says-female-animals-teach-each-other-to-choose-male-partners2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The study explains how variation in male traits and female preferences is maintained and evolved over time.<\/p>\n<p>What makes a male animal irresistible to a female? Is it his looks, smell, skills, or genes? Scientists have been trying to answer this question for a long time. However, they have not been able to explain why some males are more attractive than others or why female preferences change over time and across species.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>STidwell\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>Influenced by peers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study explains how variation in male traits and female preferences is maintained and evolved over time. What makes a male animal irresistible to a female? Is it his looks, smell, skills, or genes? Scientists have been trying to answer this question for a long time. However, they have not been able to explain why [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}