Mating season

The mating season is a period of time within the year in which certain animal species mate, ie perform the act of mating . The mating seasons are linked to the sexual cycle of the female animals and occur either once a year (monoestically) or several times (polyoestrally). In the vertebrates that have a sense of smell, the release play of fragrances in the initiation of sexual receptivity a role.

For various animal groups, special names have been established for the mating seasons. How to speak at

• Birds generally from courtship time ,
• Ducks from mooring time ,
• Ferrets , foxes , badgers and wolves from the ranz ,
• Hares and rabbits from the ramming time ,
• Paarhufern as deer and other species of deer , chamois and mouflon ( hoofed ) of rut ,
• Domestic pigs and wild boars (swine) of noise time or intoxication ,
• Dogs from heat or heat ,
• Cats of estrus or heat cycle or Raunze ,
• Horses of bravery ,
• Cattle of Bulligkeit or cattle .

The behavior of bull elephants , called musth , is often seen as rut, but is probably not behavior , but rather pubescent behavior.

literature

• Ilse Haseder , Gerhard Stinglwagner : Knaurs Großes Jagdlexikon , Augsburg 2000, p. 128, ISBN 3-8289-1579-5 .