mating

As I get older, using dating apps puts me in a smaller and smaller mating pool.

Dr Joerg Albert, from the University of Oldenburg in Germany, is an expert on mosquito mating and I asked him what he made of the research.

All work on badger setts must be completed between July and the end of November so the repairs did not interfere with the badgers' mating season, they explained.

This is the way for male cougars, highly territorial creatures that prefer a “home range” of more than 100 square miles for hunting and mating.

While the scene looks like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, its actually part of an experimental program to prevent a damaging almond pest from successfully mating.