Writing Assignment: Mating Systems Comic
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- You each have 15 minutes to present on the research you studied.
- Alright class, listen up! Today, groups 3-6 will be presenting.
- Umm... hi I'm Celine.
- Group 3, introduce yourselves and your topic.
- Hi I'm Kylee!
- I'm Rheyan! Our topic today is on Polygynandry in European Badgers.
- To start out... the European Badger's scientific name is Meles meles.
- They live in social groups with up to 24 individuals throughout Europe and Asia.
- INTRODUCTION:
- In these groups, researchers observed that multiple males and females were actively reproductive. Theresearchers wondered: do the European Badgers have a plural breeding system?
- Wytham Woods in Oxford, England
- Hannah Dugdale and her co-researchers captured, marked, and collected DNA data through blood samples of badgers in different social groups during a period of 17 years.
- Their goal was to study the mating system of the European Badgers.
- They identified the parents of 300 cubs!
- Unfortunately, not all of them breed successfully each year.
- A social group has an average of 12 adults badgers with 6 males and 6 females.
- That's right! The main point is, multiple males mate with multiple females to reproduce. This plural breeding system is called polygynandry.
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