polyandry
एक से अधिक जीवित पति रखने की बात या अवस्था
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One version of polygamy, polyandry - the marriage of a woman with more than one husband - is very rare.
polygamy in which a woman has more than one husband.
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Most marriages are monogamous, although fraternal 'polyandry' (having more than one husband) is permitted and is even considered to be prestigious.
The 'polyandry' of female Uta may be a strategy to obtain genes to produce both high quality sons and daughters.
We discuss our findings with respect to proximate and ultimate hypotheses regarding the causes and significance of 'polyandry' in female birds.
One version of polygamy, 'polyandry' - the marriage of a woman with more than one husband - is very rare.
Polygyny and 'polyandry' are not allowed, and it is forbidden to marry close family and kin members.
Most offspring were from monogamous pairs, but a few cases consistent with polygyny by males or sequential 'polyandry' by females were also found.
In the rare mating system called 'polyandry' , the female breeds with several males, which then raise the offspring alone.
From then on, polygyny (one man with several wives) replaced 'polyandry' (one woman with several husbands) as a marital practice.
Cichlids also employ 'polyandry' , in which females mate with several males.
So maybe you want to democratise 'polyandry' and polygamy, if that's what you want to do, that's fine, but I mean I'm not sure necessarily that the idea of multiculturalism actually is something that needs to be actively embraced.
However, different investigators have used the term ‘monogamy’ to describe both concepts, whereas in reality they are not synonymous: social monogamy can occur with monogamous, polygynous, and 'polyandrous' mating strategies.
I suspect that even fewer American men would be inclined to enter into 'polyandrous' (one woman, many men) marriages.
Then the hypothesis to be tested is whether differences among species in sexual dimorphism are related to the underlying genetic mating systems, perhaps with the most dimorphic species also being the most 'polyandrous' .
The female of this species is 'polyandrous' and may lay more than one clutch of eggs.
Approximately 30 birds occupied the Triangle G lagoon, and three families from one 'polyandrous' group (one female, two males) from 1997 were also included in our analyses.
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