Whichever strategy is best for the small as well as the large will be used.thedoc wrote:The winner is not always the biggest and the strongest. Cuttlefish males sometimes disguise themselves as females during mating season to get past the bigger stronger males who are fighting over the other females. It is the females who eventually choose which males will fertilize their eggs, and they do so by choosing which sperm packet from the males they use. Some females prefer the smaller male that used deception to gain access to the females. FYI, Cuttlefish adults die soon after mating, as do many other cephalopods, so there is no fighting to defend the females and young, just for access to the females for mating.Greatest I am wrote: "That is natures way. The winner gets the breading rights."
Adding qualifiers does not change that the Alpha's fight for the group and protect the females and offspring.
That is natures way. The winner gets the breading rights.
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That does not negate what I said of most mammals.
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