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These were the age matched cage mates of those rats run on the treadmill (2 rats per cage).
So females also compete for mates, though they look for the ones most willing and able to invest, not the ones most willing to copulate (those are never in short supply).
He argues that refraining from having a child may impoverish those who would have been your child's friends and mates.
In humans, for example, various studies find outcomes of Prisoner's Dilemma to be dependent on subject-to-subject variation [ 2 15 ] , including in personality traits [ 16 ] . Among animals, we expect similar variation to be dependent on expected reproductive consequences of certain outcomes, which are of more or less value to individuals depending on their size, age, sex, health, condition, social status, coalition membership, expected life span, available mates, food availability and so on.
If a queen mates with a male of her own strain, her offspring will be queens, and if she mates with a male from the other strain, the sperm will give rise to workers.