Animal Sexual Behavior

<p><strong>Animal sexual behaviour</strong> takes many different forms, including within the same <a title="Species" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species">species</a>. Common <a title="Mating" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mating">mating</a> or <a title="Reproduction" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproduction">reproductively</a> motivated systems include <a class="mw-redirect" title= "Monogamous pairing in animals" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogamous_pairing_in_animals">monogamy</a>, <a title="Polygyny in animals" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygyny_in_animals">polygyny</a>, <a title="Polyandry in nature" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyandry_in_nature">polyandry</a>, <a title="Polygamy" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy">polygamy</a> and <a title="Promiscuity" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuity">promiscuity</a>. Other sexual behaviour may be reproductively motivated (e.g. <a title="Sexual coercion among animals" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_coercion_among_animals">sex apparently due to duress or coercion</a> and <a class= "mw-redirect" title="Situational sexual behaviour" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situational_sexual_behaviour">situational sexual behaviour</a>) or <a title= "Non-reproductive sexual behavior in animals" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-reproductive_sexual_behavior_in_animals">non-reproductively motivated</a> (e.g. <a class="mw-redirect" title= "Cross-species sex" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-species_sex">interspecific sexuality</a>, sexual arousal from objects or places, <a class="mw-redirect" title="Necrophilia in animals" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrophilia_in_animals">sex with dead animals</a>, <a title= "Homosexual behavior in animals" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals">homosexual sexual behaviour</a>, and <a title="Bisexuality" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisexuality">bisexual</a> sexual behaviour).<br /> <br /> <s