About a third of the females and half the males die from fights with other animals.

大约三分之一雌性和一半雄性死于与其他动物争斗。

In the future, for example, it might be possible to reproduce endangered animals from a single male.

例如，在未来，有可能会用雄性动物繁殖出濒危动物。

They were like competitions seen among males of some mammal species for female mates, the researchers said.

研究人员表示，这就像某些哺乳动物雄性之间为了争夺雌性配偶而竞争一样。

" Musky" means having the scent of a male animal.

" 麝香" 意味着具有雄性动物气味。

So then there isn't many male animals in farming.

因此，在农业中并没有很多雄性动物。

Do you think female animals are usually more mild than male animals?

你认为雌性动物通常比雄性动物更温和吗?

Why does the Sun have to rise and then fall? Why can't male animals have babies?

为什么太阳必须升起然后落下？为什么雄性动物不能？

The old dominant male backs down.

主导地位雄性动物退缩了。

The five A longstanding hypothesis holds the sex chromosomes to blame Male mammals are in the jargon heterogometic.

一个长期假设认为，性染色体是罪魁祸首。雄性哺乳动物在行话中被称为异配性别。

The war is, perhaps, severest between the males of polygamous animals, and these seem oftenest provided with special weapons.

战争也许在一夫多妻制雄性动物之间最为激烈， 而且这些动物似乎最常配备特殊武器。

This sounds awesome, except that Leviticus 1 specifies that only male animals are supposed to be used for offerings.

这听起来很棒，但《利未记》1章明确规定，只能用雄性动物作为祭品。

Sperm are really cheap to produce, so males make a lot of them, and animal males typically don't do most of the childcare.

精子很容易形成，所以雄性能“产出”很多精子，雄性动物一般不会承担很多照顾孩子责任。

Also, one that's very closely related, vasopressin, which is the one that males, and male mammals at least, is most important for bonding.

此外，还有一种密切相关激素——加压素，对于雄性，至少是雄性哺乳动物来说，它在建立亲密关系中至关重要。这种激素在你进行性交或其他形式亲密接触时发挥作用。

For example, we see that in male hoofed animals such as moose and most other deer grow enormous antlers shortly before mating season.

例如，我们看到在交配季节前不久，驼鹿和大多数其他鹿等雄性有蹄动物会长出巨大鹿角。

By definition, when biologists talk about this, animals that are males have a little sex cell, which carries genes and nothing else – sperm cells.

根据定义，当物学家谈论这一点时，雄性动物有一个小性细胞，它携带基因， 而不携带其他东西——精子细胞。

There will be no such a situation that a creature is male by the standard of human being, but female by the standard of animal.

一个物根据人类标准是雄性而根据动物标准是雌性，这种情况不可能存在。

And it has to, like if you really think about it, the animals who we eat generally will be female animals because any males usually are killed.

而且如果你真想想，我们吃动物通常是雌性动物， 因为雄性动物通常会被杀死。

Notoriously, Aristotle had discouraging things to say about women in his politics, and he suggested in his zoological works that female animals are effectively male animals that failed to develop to full perfection.

众所周知， 亚里士多德在其政治学着作中对女性持有贬低态度，并在其动物学作品中暗示雌性动物实际上是未能发至完全成熟雄性动物。

" We need pictures of the male gonopods, and we need them online, and we need them fast! " So that scientists can help millipedes keep the soil healthful, for them and for us.

“我们需要雄性殖足类动物照片， 我们需要它们在线，我们需要它们很快！ ” 这样科学家们就可以帮助千足虫保持土壤健康， 为他们和我们。

On the other hand, I willingly admit that a great number of male animals, as all our most gorgeous birds, some fishes, reptiles, and mammals, and a host of magnificently coloured butterflies, have been rendered beautiful for beauty's sake.

另一方面， 我愿意承认， 许多雄性动物， 如我们所有最美丽鸟类、 一些鱼类、爬行动物和哺乳动物， 以及许多色彩绚丽蝴蝶， 都为了美丽而变得美丽。