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Heterotypical Sexual Behaviour in Female Mammals

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Heterotypical Behaviour in Man and Animals

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The patterns of sexual behaviour that are appropriate and necessary for reproduction are relatively fixed within a species and distinct for each sex. In general, males display responses that serve the function of attracting or locating a female partner, responses that function to court or persuade the partner, and responses that facilitate sexual union such as mounting, intromission, and ejaculation. Females, at all stages of this enterprise, display reciprocity of responses such that reduction of the distance between herself and the male partner is facilitated or permitted, encouragement or stimulation of the male’s sexual advances is provided (proceptive behaviour), and accomodation is made to sexual union (receptive behaviour). The diversity of responses displayed to accomplish these ends is very great among species, and the degree to which males display responses that differ from those of females also varies greatly. Nevertheless, within a species the responses subserving each function occur regularly enough and are closely enough associated with one of the sexes that it is possible to identify both male-typical and female-typical behavioural repertoires that ensure reproductive success. When males and females are displaying responses usually associated with the reproductive activities of their own sex, the display is characterized as ″homotypical″. When a male or female displays behaviour normally associated with the repertoire of the opposite sex, the display is characterized as ″heterotypical″. Mounting is by far the most commonly displayed heterotypical behaviour in female mammals, and the current report focuses primarily on this particular activity.

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Goy, R.W., Roy, M. (1991). Heterotypical Sexual Behaviour in Female Mammals. In: Haug, M., Brain, P.F., Aron, C. (eds) Heterotypical Behaviour in Man and Animals. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3078-3_4

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