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Summary Of: Monogamy
The word monogamy comes from the Greek word... Monogamy is one of several mating systems observed in animals... The amount of social monogamy in animals varies across taxa... over 90 percent of birds engaging in social monogamy but only 7 percent of mammals engaging in social monogamy... The incidence of sexual monogamy appears quite rare in the animal kingdom... These species did not inherit social monogamy from a common ancestor... social monogamy has evolved independently in different species... Encyclodia Page On: Monogamy
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