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Vocabulary Term Details

Sexual behaviour

Definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_behaviour_in_animals)

Sexual behaviour takes many different forms, even within the same species. Among animals, researchers have observed monogamy, promiscuity, sex between species, sexual arousal from objects or places, sex apparently via duress or coercion, copulation with dead animals, homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual sexual behaviour, situational sexual behaviour, and a range of other practices. (Wikipedia)

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Behaviour
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This term is used for the following terms: 
Mating behaviour
Oestrus behaviour

Approved Date
24-May-2013

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