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  1. List of male tennis players (14849 bytes)
    1: The following lists male [[tennis]] players from over the years who have b...
    319: *[[List of female tennis players]]

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  1. History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
    14: ...ur that otherwise would have been taken up by the male population of the city. Freed from working in the...
  2. Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
    126: ...n) has ruled out Jewish ancestry, at least in the male line.
  3. Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
    143: ...for mass political participation. Universal white male [[suffrage]] was adopted in the United States, re...
  4. Ionic order (6526 bytes)
    14: ...portions while Ionic depends on "more graceful" female body proportions. Though he does not name his sou...
  5. Vocal cords (1030 bytes)
    5: ...requency averages about 125 [[hertz|Hz]], adult females around 210, in children the frequency is over 30...
  6. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
    17: ...s a granddaughter of the British sovereign in the male line, she held the title of a [[British princess]...
    27: ...e. She was the first (and as of 2005 the only) female member of the royal family to actually serve in t...
    33: ... arranged as such, was eminently suitable for a female heir to the throne, as Philip had been trained fo...
  7. Hatshepsut (9070 bytes)
    2: ...ain to have ruled). She was the first ''known'' female to take the title Pharaoh, though, again, Nitocri...
    11: ...sut, Nefrure and Meritre, but managed to father a male heir, [[Thutmose III of Egypt|Thutmose III]], by ...
    13: ...epsut was patterning herself after the powerful female regents of Egypt's then recent history, but it so...
    20: ...int in Egyptian history there was no word for a female ruler (the closest equivalent, which was used by ...
    41: ...he throne for so long, and/or the belief that a female [[Pharaoh]] was against [[Maഝ]. Egyptologist [[...
  8. Reproduction (2286 bytes)
    5: ... have two different adult sexes, [[male]] and [[female]]. New individuals are produced by the fusion of ...
  9. Irene (empress) (3748 bytes)
    2: ...ine aristocracy and bureaucracy|basileus]]'', the male form of the word "emperor," rather than ''basilis...
  10. Melisende of Jerusalem (16880 bytes)
    19: ...w extended to Melisende, though Hugh, by strict [[male succession]], held a better claim to the throne. ...
  11. Isabella of Jerusalem (7928 bytes)
    9: ...ecognized unanimously as king, as he was the only male available, but the concerns of illegitimacy shado...
    19: ...s marriage to Isabella, Conrad became the closest male relative to the royal family and finally succeede...
  12. Eleonora di Arborea (2091 bytes)
    7: ...e regent to her infant son Frederick, who as next male heir became the official monarch of Arborea.
  13. Mary I of England (24813 bytes)
    19: ... Queen Catherine had failed to provide Henry the male heir he desired; consequently, the King attempted...
  14. Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
    14: ...male lines could inherit only after extinction of male lines.
    15: ...ation, Mary ascended the throne because all other male lines of the royal house had gone extinct before ...
  15. Maria Theresa of Austria (8450 bytes)
    6: ...es VI, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles VI]] whose sole male heir - his son Leopold Johann - died as an infant...
    41: She died in [[1780]], the only female to rule during the 650-year-long [[Habsburg]] dyn...
  16. Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
    16: ... of England. After Queen Anne failed to produce a male heir, Henry had her executed on false charges of ...
    91: ... [[Lady Anne Stanley]]. If, however, the rules of male primogeniture were upheld, the successor would be...
  17. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
    113: ...a in his family, nor is it normally passed on the male side of the family. It is much more likely that s...
  18. Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
    43: ... to avoid offending the magazine's overwhelmingly male readership. One of Mrs. Roosevelt's prized troph...
  19. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    47: ...ervative MPs to support the Bill to decriminalise male [[homosexuality]], and she voted in favour of the...
    61: ...9|1979 election]] and Thatcher became the first female Prime Minister.
    158: ...as refraining from many of the silly behaviors of males—and every time making an exception for "Mr...
  20. Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
    24: ...med that these social ills were the result of the male establishment's intentionally keeping women in ig...
    31: ...ntial purpose of easily expelling them into the female for the purpose of reproduction, there are other ...
  21. Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
    9: ...find a job as a journalist because editors wanted male reporters. After two years she landed a job as an...
  22. Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
    6: ...865). Tired of patronizing instructors and fellow male students, and the slow pace of her courses, she d...
  23. George Eliot (6014 bytes)
    5: ...to ensure that her works were taken seriously. Female authors published freely under their own names, b...
  24. Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
    3: ...l Disegno]] in Florence. She was also the first female artist to paint history and religious paintings, ...
    12: ...ly talent, Artemisia was denied access to the all-male professional academies for art. At the time, her ...
    59: ...eferences of a client base presumably composed by males. The stereotype caused a double restrictive effe...
    92: ...xplains the interest of some writers (males and females) towards her.
  25. Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
    9: ...ive more than a million dollars a year (the first male actor who made a million dollar deal was [[Charli...
  26. Murasaki Shikibu (2682 bytes)
    4: ...se]], the official language of the court, while females were taught [[kana]] and [[poetry]]. Her father ...
  27. Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
    14: ... records than any pilot living or dead, male or female. In 1948 Cochran joined the U.S. Air Force Reserv...
    20: ...an Party]]. Although she defeated a field of five male opponents to win the Republican nomination, in th...
  28. Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
    18: ...ys since her death: In [[1931]], a group of Black male pilots performed the first yearly fly-by over Col...
  29. Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
    33: ... of political influence among females. The formal male-dominated institutions typical of some high-popul...
  30. Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
    18: ... residence in various state capitals lobbying all-male legislatures.
  31. Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
    46: ... text of Rainer Maria Rilke for cello, orchestra, male choir, and a woman speaker (1991)
  32. Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
    6: ... time - Joplin styled herself in part after her female blues heroines, and in part after the [[beat poet...
    30: ... all combined to create an entirely new kind of female persona in rock.
    32: ...was pivotal in redefining what was possible for female singers in popular music.
    34: ...cended the role of "chick singer" fronting an all-male band, to being an internationally famous solo sta...
    36: ... remarkable that she is probably the only major female [[pop-rock]] star of the period who '''never''' w...
  33. Mary Read (2833 bytes)
    1: '''Mary Read''' was a female [[pirate]] born in the late [[17th century]] who ...
    3: ... boy to make her husband believe Read was truly a male. Read?s father died at sea and left his inherita...
    7: ...ckham who was thrilled to be on a ship with two females.
  34. Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
    13: ...e, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." According to this account, Adam...
    56: ... of Adam and Eve as a way to represent female and male nudes in a then morally acceptable way. Sometimes...
  35. Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
    43: ...irmed in writings that also promote hierarchical, male, formal authority within the church community str...
    63: ...is that bachelorhood was very rare for [[Jewish]] males of Jesus' time, being generally regarded as a tr...
  36. Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
    22: ...f early [[oratorio]] for women's voices, with one male part - that of the [[Devil]]. It was created, lik...
    30: ...might also contain the first description of the female orgasm.
  37. Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
    6: ...valokitesvara can be depicted as either male or female, Kuan Yin is usually depicted as a woman, whereas...
    12: ...tion in China was further interpreted in an all female form around the [[12th century]]. In the modern p...
  38. Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
    12: ...Metz and Bertrand de Poulengy, said they gave her male clothing to wear (as the standard disguise used i...
    36: ... safety provided by the "laces and points" on her male clothing which allowed the pants and tunic to be ...
    38: ...ave her nothing else to wear except the offending male clothing, which she finally put back on after arg...
    51: ...uch clothing out of necessity: since the type of male clothing in question had "laces and points" by wh...
    53: ...eft her nothing else to wear except the offending male outfit, which she put back on after a prolonged a...
  39. Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
    3: ...ilitary service in a huge way by founding three female air regiments which would eventually fly over 30,...
    9: ... [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]" award, the first females ever to receive it and the only ones to be award...
    13: ...n combat ([[April 16]], [[1942]]) of the three female regiments and participated in 4,419 combat missio...
    15: ...of the three women's regiments to remain solely female throughout the war, a distinction they went to so...
    17: ...oviet bombers, the [[Petlyakov Pe-2]], while many male units used obsolete aircraft, a factor which led ...
  40. Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
    15: ...merica and in Europe, acting with all the leading male stars of the time. In [[1964]] her career came, t...
  41. Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
    17: ...r/Victoria'' she plays a woman pretending to be a male, and, perhaps most notoriously, in ''S.O.B.'' she...
  42. Nadia Comaneci (5337 bytes)
    13: ...rall title (becoming the first gymnast, male or female, to do so). At the World Championships that Dece...
  43. Mia Hamm (6476 bytes)
    7: ...er player of the year'' and the other two for ''Female Athlete of the Year''.
    15: ...er of The Year'' alongside [[Ronaldo]], who won ''Male Player of The Year'' honors.
    21: ...record in that category for any player, male or female. This match also marked her 259th [[cap (football...
    23: ...han 50 ahead of any other player (male '''or''' female), and 276 [[Cap (football)|caps]], second only to...
  44. Eliska Junkova (2642 bytes)
    1: ... Republic]], is regarded as one of the greatest female drivers in [[Grand Prix motor racing]] history.
    4: ...o compete in races around Europe against the best male drivers of the time.
    8: ...enable her to be on an equal footing with the top male drivers who would be competing. At the end of th...
    10: ...r racing world. Like [[Hellé Nice]], her great female counterpart from France, only recently has Junkov...
  45. Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
    1: ...or ''[[prima donna]]'' of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an international celebrit...
    3: ...is celebrity and one of the first international female sport stars, named ''La Divine'' (the divine one)...
    42: The first major female tennis star to turn professional, Lenglen was pai...
    44: ...e headline event of the tour (which also featured male players). In their first match in New York City, ...
    69: ...k, speed and a deadly accurate shot to dominate female tennis for seven straight years. Her excellent pl...
  46. Pansy (10101 bytes)
    132: ...n the fact that Pansy has indicated an effeminate male since [[Elizabethan]] times. The word "ponce" de...
  47. Begonia (2934 bytes)
    15: ..., the male containing numerous [[stamen]]s, the female having a large inferior [[ovary]] and two to four...
  48. Lotus (1302 bytes)
    14: *The Indian male name "Rajiv" means "Lotus Flower"
  49. Testicle (6183 bytes)
    1: ... are the male generative glands in [[animal]]s. Male [[mammal]]s have two testicles, which are often c...
    11: * producing male sex [[hormone]]s, of which [[testosterone]] is th...
    19: ...ary functions the [[impregnation]] of a fertile female of the same [[species]] (or a sufficiently close ...
    30: In normal adult human males, testicular size ranges from the lower end of ar...
  50. Abdomen (6929 bytes)
    22: ...rough which the [[spermatic cord]] emerges in the male, and through which an [[inguinal hernia]] may rup...
  51. Human skeleton (3903 bytes)
    29: ...r of smaller differences between human male and female skeletons.
  52. Gastrointestinal tract (16596 bytes)
    12: In a normal [[human]] adult male, the GI tract is approximately [[1 E0 m|7 and a h...
  53. Breast (4630 bytes)
    1: ... normally remains undeveloped. In some situations male breast development does occur, a condition called...
    24: ...cs]]. Some biologists believe that the shape of female breasts evolved as a frontal counterpart to that ...
    26: ...s, the infant's nose might be blocked by a flat female chest while feeding. According to this theory, as...
    28: ...of the overall breast tissue. Most of the human female breast is actually [[adipose tissue]] ([[fat]]) a...
    30: ...tures place a high value on [[symmetry]] of the female human form, and because women often identify thei...
  54. Human brain (15406 bytes)
    13: ...lls and 100 more grams of brain tissue than the female brain. It consumes about 20% of the [[energy]] us...
    25: ... birth is nearly unique in the animal kingdom. Female humans have large pelvic openings to accommodate ...
  55. Urinary bladder (1524 bytes)
    5: ...r, the [[vagina]] (in females) and [[rectum]] (in males). The urinary bladder is normally capable of sto...
  56. Penis (268 bytes)
    1: ...of [[urination]]. It is [[homologous]] to the [[female]] [[clitoris]], as it develops from the same embr...
  57. Tibia (10700 bytes)
    1: ... with the bone of the opposite side; but in the female it has a slightly oblique direction downward and ...
  58. Vertebral column (7072 bytes)
    5: ...ve is more marked in the [[female]] than in the [[male]]; it begins at the middle of the last thoracic v...
    34: ...5% of the population. It is more common among [[female]]s and may result from unequal growth of the two ...
  59. Chest (3592 bytes)
    19: ...ternum to the mid-axillary line laterally. The female nipple is surrounded for half an inch by a more o...
  60. Biological life cycle (3738 bytes)
    9: .... Two opposite types of gametes (e.g., male and female) from these individuals or cells fuse to become a...
  61. Ploidy (4598 bytes)
    8: ... a few [[alga|algae]] exist as haploid organisms, male bees, wasps and ants are also haploid. For organi...
    16: ...male develops from unfertilized eggs, while the female develops from fertilized eggs: the sperm provides...
  62. Chromosome (12667 bytes)
    122: ...ed solely from either parent. When a male and a female gamete merge ([[fertilization]]), a new diploid o...
    124: ...|right|300px|'''Figure 3''': Karyogram of human female]]
    128: ...s). These are XX in females and XY in males. In females, one of the two X chromosomes is inactive and ca...
    197: ...]] (X instead of XX or XY). In Turner syndrome, female sexual characteristics are present but underdevel...
  63. Hymenoptera (2532 bytes)
    17: Females typically have a special [[ovipositor]] for inse...
    19: ...were siblings or other close relatives. Diploid males are known to be produced by inbreeding in many a...
    21: The consequence of haplodiploidy is that females on average actually have more genes in common wi...
  64. Wasp (3838 bytes)
    17: ...he majority of the colony is made up of sterile female workers.
    21: ...eet secretions that are consumed by adults. Adult male wasps sometimes visit flowers to obtain [[nectar]...
    27: * Two pairs of [[wing]]s (exception: female ''Mutillidae'')
    28: ... A [[stinger (organ)|stinger]] (only present in females because it derives from the [[ovipositor]])
  65. Bee (11175 bytes)
    27: ... up of thirteen segments in males and twelve in females. They have two pairs of wings, the back pair bei...
    29: ...back to the nest to feed brood. The apex of the female abdomens are modified into a stinger.
    45: ...ggered by day length. She is the only fertile [[female]], and deposits all the [[Egg (biology)|egg]]s fr...
    53: Worker bees are infertile females. Worker bees secrete the [[Beeswax|wax]] used to...
    56: Drone bees are the [[male]] bees of the colony. Drone honeybees do not fora...
  66. Flowering plant (29088 bytes)
    62: ...f pollen grains. In other species, the male and female parts are morphologically separated, developing o...
    65: ...e new facts, but it is noteworthy that the second male-cell is said to unite sometimes with the apical p...
    67: ...umber is restored in the fusion of the male and female nuclei in the process of fertilization, and remai...
    69: ... cell proceeds to the formation of a functional female cell. In ''Casuarina'', ''Juglans'' and the Order...
  67. Pollen (5420 bytes)
    3: ...n grain contains one or two generative cells (the male gametes) and a vegetative cell. The group of thre...
    5: ...f an [[Flowering plant|angiosperm]] [[flower]] or male [[conifer cones|cone]] of a [[Pinophyta|coniferou...
    9: ...ich divides to form two male- or sperm-cells. The male-cells are carried to their destination in the tip...
  68. Pre-historic art (9744 bytes)
    20: ...[Lengyel]] and [[Vinca]], produced female (rarely male) and animal statues that can be called art. Wheth...
  69. Ptolemaic dynasty (4871 bytes)
    5: ...tolemaic Egypt is very confusing, because all the male rulers of the dynasty took the name Ptolemy, and ...
  70. Sex (2995 bytes)
    1: ...two sexes: ''[[male]]'' and ''[[female]]''. The female sex is defined as the one which produces the larg...
    5: ...of gametes. These are generally called male and female based on their relative sizes and motility. In [...
    8: ...ites]], that is, individuals that have male and female sex organs.
    10: ...two of the same kind of sex chromosome (ZZ) and females have one of each type (ZW). In other species, in...
  71. Nile (13738 bytes)
    48: ...istic and Roman representations of the river as a male god with his face and head obscured in drapery.
  72. George Washington (29551 bytes)
    89: ...]: "--began to seperate (sic) the Male from the Female Hemp at Do--rather too late."
  73. Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
    73: ...ch one male slave, and his daughter-in-law four female slaves, one of whom he had bought for her and the...
  74. Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
    124: ...in the midwest for purchase at very low cost. Any male over 21 could obtain a Homestead tract of 160 acr...
  75. Earth (30908 bytes)
    268: **''male:'' 932,800,000 (15.4 %)
    269: **''female:'' 886,000,000 (14.6 %)
    271: **''male:'' 1,942,000,000 (32.0 %)
    272: **''female:'' 1,898,000,000 (31.2 %)
    274: **''male:'' 184,100,000 (3.0 %)
  76. List of countries by continent (11037 bytes)
    101: * [[Maldives]] - [[Male, Maldives|Male]]
  77. Netherlands (35958 bytes)
    156: | align="center" colspan="22" | <font size="-1">Male</font>
    158: | align="center" colspan="22" | <font size="-1">Female</font>
  78. Turkey (41694 bytes)
    276: |life_male=69.94 years
    277: |life_female=74.91 years
    279: |age_0-14_years=26% (male 9,232,439; female 8,897,135)
    280: |age_15-64_years= 67.3% (male 23,806,367; female 23,053,536)
    281: |age_65_years=6.7% (male 2,140,242; female 2,530,840) (2005 est.)
  79. Greece (54754 bytes)
    104: ...s the massacre at [[Kalavryta]], where the entire male population (1258 men) of the city of Kalavrita we...
  80. People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
    180: ...in rural areas to ensure that the second child is male. (See National Geographic's China's Lost Childre...
    193: ...ng born (kills female sperm; the higher male to female ratio than is normal for most countries). A prog...
  81. Zimbabwe (16088 bytes)
    88: ...persons aged 15 and over who can read and write), male of 93% (2000). Comparison with other [[Southern A...
  82. Portugal (61755 bytes)
    31: ...do of Portugal|King Ferdinand]] was dying with no male heirs. His only child, a single daughter, marrie...
    239: ...sus, Portugal had 10,356,117 inhabitants (51,7% female). Currently, there are almost 10,6 million inhabi...
  83. Wolverine (3928 bytes)
    17: ...olverine can weigh up to 30&nbsp;kg (66&nbsp;lb) (male), and is 70&ndash;110 &nbsp;cm (27&ndash;43 &nbsp...
    19: ...legal hunting]]. Note that wolverines, especially male wolverines, require large home ranges. The wolver...
    21: ...ter, which delays the development of the fetus. Females often will not produce young when food is not ab...
  84. Odonata (3722 bytes)
    25: ...the female bends her abdomen forward to touch the male organ and receive sperm.
  85. Hippopotamus (6778 bytes)
    17: ...f females while defending it against other males. Male hippos challenge one another with threatening gap...
    22: ... as a [[battering ram]], especially against rival males fighting over territory. The animals are 1.5 met...
    24: ...orse. A male hippo is known as a ''bull''; the female, a ''cow''; a baby, a ''calf''; and a group of hi...
  86. Ant (13019 bytes)
    32: ...single role: mating with the queen. After mating, males usually die. The queen lays eggs, which develop ...
    37: ...l structure. A typical colony includes the queen, males, and numerous workers. Worker ants are further d...
    61: ...ures, like wings in the case of future queens and males, develop. The pupal stage is a time of transform...
    64: ... young, and maintaining and defending the colony. Male ants, often referred to as drones, primarily serv...
    72: ...mid-flight, after which males perish. Surviving females land, shed their wings, and start new colonies. ...
  87. Koala (10686 bytes)
    26: ...age male and just over 5&nbsp;kg for an average female), a lighter, often rather scruffy, grey in colour...
    30: ...l northern female. They are generally silent, but male koalas have a very loud advertising call (a nasal...
    39: ...dividuals attack subordinate ones, and most adult males carry scars on their face, ears and forearms as ...
    45: ...of age, males at 3&ndash;4 years. If healthy, a female koala can produce one young each year for about t...
    47: ...ales disperse to nearby areas at that time; young males often stay in the mother's home range until they...
  88. Sun Bear (4617 bytes)
    17: ...ales]] tend to be slightly larger than [[female|females]].
  89. Body (1664 bytes)
    5: ...the groin, which differ between [[male]]s and [[female]]s.
  90. Isis (20790 bytes)
    5: ...ieroglyph for her name used originally meant ''(female) of flesh'', i.e. [[mortal]], and she may simply ...
    27: ...Graeco-Roman]] era, all priestesses of Isis are female. Many of them were healers and midwives, and were...
    54: ...]''), and thus was considered his wife. The two females - Isis and Nephthys were often depicted on coffi...
    56: ...ated with Set, who was [[gay]] (and already had a male lover - [[Shu]]), and so disguised herself as the...
    81: ...ording to [[Josephus]], Caligula himself donned female garb and took part in the mysteries he instituted...
  91. Bast goddess (3454 bytes)
    5: ... [[pharaoh]], and consequently of the later chief male deity, [[Ra]], who was a solar deity also, gainin...
  92. Hapy (2473 bytes)
    7: ...d fertile lands. Consequently, though obviously [[male]], and with a [[beard]], Hapy was pictured with f...
  93. Mut (3472 bytes)
    2: ..., and so his wife [[Amaunet]], who was simply a female version of Amun, was replaced with a more substan...
    4: ...the species, the Egyptians believed there were no males, and so they did not reproduce but were [[concep...
    10: ...'Mut-Isis-Nekhbet''), the most important of the females in the Ennead, and the patron of the queen. The ...
  94. Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
    38: ..., with power being held by an assembly of all the male citizens.
  95. Alabama (10792 bytes)
    98: -51.7% [[female]]
    100: -48.3% [[male]]
    134: -47th in its percentage of [[males]]
    136: -5th in its percentage of [[females]]
  96. Alaska (24727 bytes)
    136: 51.7% is male, and 48.3% is female.
  97. Arizona (24367 bytes)
    176: 49.9% of the population is male, 50.1% is female.
  98. Arkansas (11679 bytes)
    120: 48.8% is male, and 51.2% is female.
  99. Connecticut (28543 bytes)
    131: ...approximately 51.6% of the population, with 48.4% male.
  100. Vermont (39851 bytes)
    177: *51.0% [[female]]
    178: *49.0% [[male]]
    190: * 28th in its proportion of [[males]]
    191: * 24th in its proportion of [[females]]
  101. Utah (29154 bytes)
    223: * 49.9% female
    224: * 50.1% male
  102. Rhode Island (15004 bytes)
    60: ...developed. By 1829, 60% of the state's free white males were ineligible to vote.
    62: ...n was passed in November, which allowed any white male to vote that owned land or could pay a $1 [[poll ...
    95: Females made up approximately 52% of the population.
  103. Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
    63: ...his own age, in a time when the standard model of male love was [[pederasty|pederastic]]. See [[Homosexu...
    65: ...esser, wearing armor when Greek women and other female gods did not.
  104. Ptolemy IV of Egypt (2166 bytes)
    3: ...ways under the dominion of favourites, male and female, who indulged his vices and conducted the governm...
  105. Animal (16429 bytes)
    152: ...Large table of words: animal, collective, male, female, young, & home
  106. Spider (29039 bytes)
    112: ...ely departure after mating to escape before the female's normal predatory instincts come back into opera...
    114: ...he [[epigyne]]. He transfers his sperm into the female by contracting his palps.
    116: ... In the meantime the female feeds on the palpless male. (''Journal of Zoology (2001), 254:449-459 [[Camb...
    118: ===Do female spiders eat their mates?===
    119: ...lti'') that seems to require the sacrifice of the male.
  107. Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
    24: ...o 175,000 people chosen by the government, mostly male
    31: ...law was revised to include women specifically. Female voters became so objectionable to professional po...
    45: ...tution]], for instance, still mandates that only "male citizen[s] of this state" may vote, although in p...
  108. Flower (10503 bytes)
    10: ...where [[pollen]] is produced. Pollen contains the male [[gamete]]s.
    11: ...uctive organs and contain an ovary with ovules (female gametes). The sticky tip of tip of the pistil, th...
    16: ...ious]]'''''. However, where unisexual male and female flowers appear on the same plant, the species is ...
    18: ...eventing self-fertilization. Unisexual male and female flowers on the same plant may not appear at the s...
    26: ...of a flower is to mediate the union of male and female gametes. The process is termed '''[[pollination]]...
  109. Animals (10378 bytes)
    23: ...ocess generally involves the fusion of male and female gametes (sperm and egg). Such as Mammals, birds, ...
    38: ...cies of fairyfly, Dicopomorpha echmepterygis. The males of this species, which are wingless, can be as s...
  110. Human (48024 bytes)
    43: ...an|men]], juvenile females [[girl]]s, and adult females [[woman|women]]. Humans are commonly referred to...
    47: ...strated by such compounds as ''wifman'' (&ldquo;female person&rdquo;) &rarr; ''wiman'' &rarr; ''woman''....
    80: ...us, now called a [[baby]], is expelled from the female's body, and breathes independently for the first ...
    88: ...is 30.99 years for a male and 30.53 years for a female. One in five [[European]]s, but one in twenty [[A...
    102: ...ram|kg]] (137 [[pound|lb]]). North American adult males are typically larger: 175 cm (69 in) and 78 kilo...
  111. Civilization (29205 bytes)
    52: ...acrifice]]s, with more goods left with burials of males. Ornaments of [[sea shell]], [[limestone]], [[t...
    69: ...of "[[Western civilization]]". In the same way, a male of [[Kurdish]] ancestry living in [[Syria]] is ab...
  112. Politics (7193 bytes)
    21: ...ed. However, this democracy was limited to free, male, landholders.
  113. Conifer cones (8328 bytes)
    1: ...:Pine_cones,_mature_female.jpg|left|85px|Mature female European Black Pine cone]]
    3: ...y cone is the [[seed]]-producing female cone. The male cones, which produces [[pollen]], are usually her...
    5: ...e:Pine_cones,_immature_male.jpg|right|thumb|120px|male cones of a pine]]
    6: ...''' (pollen sacs). The photo (right) shows mature male [[pine]] cones shortly after pollen release.
    8: ...ch when fertilized by pollen, become seeds. The female cone structure varies more markedly between the d...
  114. India (27950 bytes)
    81: ...on) stands at 39.1%, with male WPR at 51.7% and female WPR at 25.6%{{ref|eu}}. India's median age is 24....
  115. Centriole (976 bytes)
    5: ...he cell through the process of [[mitosis]] and in male [[meiosis]].
  116. New Year (5703 bytes)
    37: ...year started on [[1 January]], the feast of the [[Male circumcision|Circumcision]] (of [[Jesus]]).
  117. Tropical cyclone (34538 bytes)
    209: ... [[World War II]], tropical cyclones were given female names, mainly for the convenience of the forecast...
    213: ...o these concerns in 1979 with the introduction of male names to the nomenclature. This was also the firs...
    218: ...tic and Eastern North Pacific regions, female and male names during a given season are assigned alternat...
  118. Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
    126: ...tually all the female names had been used up, and male names were usually reserved for objects with unus...
  119. Shark (14021 bytes)
    55: ...sleading as they are not used to hold on to the female, but are the shark's version of the mammalian [[p...
    58: ...e female to show his interest. In some species, females have evolved thicker skin to withstand the shark...
    60: ...rovide parental protection for their young, but females have a [[hormone]] that is released into their b...
  120. Artemis (11271 bytes)
    62: #Orion raped one of Artemis' female followers. She sent [[Scorpio]], a [[scorpion]],...
    82: ...en children ([[Niobids]]), seven male and seven female, while Leto had only two. Apollo killed her sons...
    102: ...ure after her father abandoned her. She sent a female bear to suckle the baby, who was then raised by h...
  121. Colonial America (32872 bytes)
    27: ...nists, and most of the additional colonists, were male. Without wives or children to protect, the coloni...
    58: ...als were elected by the community, but only white males who were members of a [[Congregationalist]] chur...
  122. Okapi (2836 bytes)
    17: ...it is the only mammal that can lick its own ears. Male okapis have short, skin-covered horns.
  123. Giant Panda (7693 bytes)
    21: ...ging from thirty seconds to five minutes, but the male may mount repeatedly to ensure successful fertili...
    23: ...and child?s weight in all animals. Usually, the female panda gives birth to one to two panda cubs. Since...
  124. Orangutan (5406 bytes)
    25: ...mmature suitors, preferring to mate with a mature male. Wild orangutans are known to visit human-run fac...
  125. Numbat (6437 bytes)
    19: ...t varies between 30 and just over 70 grams, the female usually being very slightly the larger of the two...
    35: ...main in the pouch until July, at which time the female leaves them in the burrow, returning to suckle th...
    37: ...e territories overlap, and in the breeding season males will venture outside their normal home range to ...
  126. Morse code (33777 bytes)
    461: | OM || Old man (any male amateur radio operator is an OM)
    551: | YL || Young lady (used for any female)
  127. Colorado (22240 bytes)
    189: 50.4% of the population is male, and 49.1% is female.
  128. Spice (1517 bytes)
    8: ...ts. In the biblical poem [[Song of Solomon]], the male speaker compares his beloved to many forms of spi...
  129. Allspice (3832 bytes)
    34: ...]. The plant has separate sexes, hence male and female plants must be kept in proximity in order to allo...
  130. Kangaroo Facts (16137 bytes)
    23: ...are called ''bucks'', ''boomers'' or ''jacks''; females are ''does'', ''flyers'', or ''jills'' and the y...
    28: ...id and semi-arid centre of the continent. A large male can be 1.5&nbsp;m(4.5 feet) tall and weigh 85&nbs...
    30: ...er again at about 54&nbsp;kg(119 lbs) for a large male. It is found in the southern part of [[Western Au...
    46: ...s. The mere barking of a dog can set a full-grown male boomer into a wild frenzy. In extreme circumstanc...
    51: ...hen the female is being checked, it urinates. The male kangaroo will then make a practice of sniffing th...
  131. Scrotum (2019 bytes)
    1: ...ated between the [[penis]] and [[anus]]. The [[female]] [[Homology (biology)|homologue]] during fetal d...
    5: ...vated body temperature prevents impregnation of females who are ill.
  132. Prostate (3581 bytes)
    1: The '''prostate''' is a [[gland]] that is part of male [[mammal]]ian [[sex organ]]s. Its main function i...
    3: The [[male]] urethra has two functions: to carry urine from ...
    9: ...ich is produced mainly by the [[testicle]]s. Some male hormones are produced in small amounts by the [[a...
    11: ...males are [[homologous]] to the prostate gland in males.
    31: * [[Skene's gland]] (The female [[homologous]] organ)
  133. Babirusa (849 bytes)
    6: ...wards the head; in fact, the upper canines of the male babirusa are so curved and enlarged that they eme...
  134. Cattle (12844 bytes)
    21: ...An intact male is called a '''bull'''. An adult female over two years of age (approximately) is called a...
    23: ...though it is usually understood to mean female (females of other animals, such as whales or elephants, a...
    25: ...in particular may be used because humans find the male of a species daunting.
    52: ...s. Often they are adult, [[castration|castrated]] males. Usually an ox is over four years old due to the...
    58: ...is the male of a breed, rather than the smaller female. Also, the gait of the ox is often important to ...
  135. Deer (6737 bytes)
    16: ... ''harts'', ''[[buck]]s'' or ''[[bull]]s'', and females are called ''[[hind]]s'', ''[[doe]]s'' or ''[[co...
    20: ...r (usually in summer) and, in general, it is only male deer that develop them (although there are except...
  136. Horse (38916 bytes)
    23: ....e. having a harem of his own, having separated female equids from another stallion's band.
    43: ...crossing various species of zebra with mares or female asses to produce "zebra mules"&mdash;zorses and z...
    72: * '''colt''' - an unaltered male horse from birth till the age of 4.
    75: * [[filly]] - female horse from birth till the age of 3.
    78: * [[gelding]] - a fixed male horse
  137. Toad (5772 bytes)
    51: ...further remarkable for the very loud croak of the males, produced by a large vocal bladder on the throat...
    53: ...us]] is the process wherein the male grasps the female while she lays her eggs. At the same time, he fe...
  138. Crustacean (6274 bytes)
    45: ...lease the eggs. Crabs' eggs are retained by the females until they hatch into free-swimming [[larva]]e.
  139. Chinese dragon (7565 bytes)
    27: ...lly has 117 scales - 81 (9x9) male and 36 (9x4) female.
  140. Jan van Eyck (7234 bytes)
    26: ...ncellor of Burgundy. Contemporary with these, the male portraits in the National Gallery, and the "Man w...
    32: ... in the gallery of [[Vienna]] ([[1436]]), and a female, the master's wife, in the gallery of Bruges ([[1...
  141. Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
    16: ...ssing the practice of sodomy, which a majority of male Florentines engaged in <!-- is this a credible so...
    18: ... one of the protagonists and declares, "Know that male love is exclusively the product of virtue which, ...
    85: ...1). In 30 years, Leonardo dissected 30 male and female corpses of different ages. Together with Marcanto...
  142. Thomas More (15893 bytes)
    36: ...riage, but Catherine failed to provide him with a male heir and Henry eventually became enamored of [[An...
  143. Hundred Years' War (30012 bytes)
    13: ...ilip IV of France|Philip IV]] died, leaving three male heirs. The eldest son, [[Louis X of France|Louis ...
    15: ...ot a daughter of Louis X), but precedent for only male heirs had been set. When Philip V died in [[1322]...
    19: ...nior line of Capetian dynasty had ended in [[tail male]], creating a crisis on who would become the next...
    21: ...t living male relative and was the only surviving male descendant of the senior line of the Capetian dyn...
    23: ...l inheritance could pass only through an unbroken male line, and not through a King's daughter (Isabella...
  144. Cassowary (5017 bytes)
    30: ...aking them the only armoured bird in the world. Females are bigger and more brightly coloured.
    34: ...ale does not care for the eggs or the chicks; the male [[incubate]]s the eggs for two months, then cares...
  145. Cheetah (6461 bytes)
    25: ... true territories and seem to avoid each other. [[Male]]s sometimes form small groups, especially when t...
  146. Condor (7828 bytes)
    24: ...runcle or comb, while the skin of the neck in the male lies in folds, forming a wattle. The skin of the ...
    26: ...Bird of prey|birds of prey]], is smaller than the male.
  147. Annelid (7780 bytes)
    43: ...ite directions. The fluid is transferred from the male pore to the other worm. Different methods of [[sp...
    45: Most polychaete worms have separate males and females and external fertilization. The earliest [[larv...
  148. Dik-dik (3106 bytes)
    16: ...partially conceals the short, ringed horns of the male.
    19: ...male dik-diks are somewhat larger than males. The males have [[horn (anatomy)|horn]]s, which are small (...
  149. Baboon (5672 bytes)
    20: ...hough they are tough prey for a leopard and large males will often confront them.
    29: ...iate mating by presenting her swollen rump to the male.
    30: ... succeed in again and again making for others a female estranged.
    32: ...rth group, and nearly all animals from harems and males from mixed groups do, then usually this is befor...
  150. Stag Beetle (3702 bytes)
    30: ...e [[cervus]] is derived from the mandibles of the male, which look like the horns of a cervus. The Stag ...
    32: ...nd, the males seem to fly more readily than the females. Adults only live for a few months feeding on [[...
  151. Water Buffalo (6557 bytes)
    17: ...lthough females typically weigh around 750 kg and males upwards of 1000 kg. Due to genetic isolation wei...
    27: ...edator the [[tiger]] seldom attacks a fully grown male.This makes the buffalo a very dangerous animal if...
  152. Bengal Tiger (2114 bytes)
    16: ... Male Bengal Tigers are up to 10 ft (3 m) long. Females are up to 9 ft (2.7 m) long. They hunt [[deer]],...
  153. Bilby (4570 bytes)
    22: ...same size as a [[rabbit (ecology)|rabbit]]. The female is smaller, around 0.8 to 1.1 kg. The Bilby has a...
  154. Bird (20345 bytes)
    70: ...g the breeding season to produce [[sperm]]. The female's [[ovary|ovaries]] also become larger, although ...
    72: ... close to hers, so that the sperm can enter the female's cloaca, in what is referred to as a [[cloacal k...
    74: ...'s sperm, before being subsequently laid by the female. The eggs will then continue their development in...
    87: *Gowaty, Patricia Adair: Male Parental Care and Apparent Monogamy among Eastern...
    88: *Ketterson, Ellen D. and Nolan, Val: Male Parental Behavior in Birds. ''Annual Review of Ec...
  155. Bobcat (4586 bytes)
    15: ... (10&ndash;12 inches)]] high at the shoulder. The male Bobcat typically weighs from [[1 E1 kg|11&ndash;1...
    17: [[Image:bobcatonwires.jpg|240px|thumb|left|A male Bobcat in an urban surrounding]]
    18: ...e a [[gestation]] period of about two months. A female may have one to six [[kitten]]s each year. Althou...
  156. Bongo (antelope) (2000 bytes)
    16: ... as much as 900 pounds (400 kg). Both male and female bongos have spiral horns.
  157. Bottlenose Dolphin (16802 bytes)
    21: ...g slightly longer and considerably heavier than females on average. The size of the dolphin appears to v...
    31: ...rm larger groups of one hundred dolphins or more. Males live mostly alone or in groups of 2-3 and join t...
    35: ...[[shark]]s and other smaller species of dolphins. Male dolphins, during the mating season, compete very ...
    37: ...or about 40 years; the more stressful life of the males apparently takes its toll, and they rarely live ...
    52: ...in this bay, and is almost exclusively shown by females. This is the only known case of tool use in mari...
  158. Bull shark (3651 bytes)
    20: ...e|m]] long and weigh 90 [[kilogram|kg]]. The [[female]]s can be much larger, 3.5 m long and 230 kg. Th...
  159. Congress of the United States (41315 bytes)
    181: ...gresswomen, even in the 1990s, see the House as a male institution and have complained about their diffi...
  160. Cheerleading (7470 bytes)
    7: ... significant factor was limited availability of female collegiate sports. Organised cheerleading contest...
    50: ... a squad of anywhere between 2-40+ females and/or males that are completely dedicated to cheerleading. ...
  161. St. Valentine's Day (9989 bytes)
    52: ...obligation, and they give chocolates to all their male co-workers, sometimes at significant personal exp...
  162. Culture of Italy (11004 bytes)
    77: ...ng traditionalist Sicilians, as are [[Messina]]'s male choirs.
  163. Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (14006 bytes)
    63: ...her in keeping with the contemporary tradition of male [[Homoeroticism|homoerotic]] art exemplified by [...
    65: ...sed the male body when naked and denigrated the female. At Gilwell Park, the Scouts' camping ground in [...
  164. Underground Railroad (17993 bytes)
    56: ...ajority of the escapees are believed to have been male field workers less than forty years old; the jour...
  165. Jellyfish (6276 bytes)
    20: ... means that each animal is either [[male]] or [[female]]. A group of animals releases [[sperm]] and [[e...
  166. Tarantula (17481 bytes)
    166: ...y go in search of a female to mate with. Once the male is a mature adult, it will most likely never moul...
    168: ...bout, hoping to encounter the hiding place of a female with which to mate. They are willing to cross roa...
    170: ...ula who is unreceptive to mating may also eat the male as he attempts to mate. This however is less comm...
    172: ...o regenerate lost limbs and have a longer life. Female specimens have been known to reach 30 years of ag...
    173: On the average, females live 20-30 years and males 10-12 years, depending on species, if well cared...
  167. Sea nettle (4594 bytes)
    21: ...rd, the sperm has to swim into the mouth of the female, which will fertilize the [[Ovum|egg]]s that she ...
    23: ...mbryo]]tic development begins either inside the female jellyfish or in brood pouches along the oral arms...
  168. Canopic jar (2086 bytes)
    14: ... of a throne into the tombs, and with a male or female head modelled on them, representing the deceased'...
  169. History of astronomy (13532 bytes)
    73: ...ious centuries noted astronomers were exclusively male, at the turn of the 20th century women began to p...
  170. Fern (7930 bytes)
    20: # Male gamete fertilizes a female gamete in the prothallus
    77: ****Order: ''[[Loxomales]]''
    94: *''Dryopteris filix-mas'' ([[male fern]]), used as a [[vermifuge]]
  171. Impala (1708 bytes)
    15: ...h lighter flanks, it has a white under-belly. The male has [[lyre]] shaped horns. Impala are among the ...
    16: ... usually found in herds, often a male with many females. They are common throughout [[Southern Africa]]....
  172. Elephant (13277 bytes)
    23: ...0 years. The largest elephant ever recorded was a male shot in [[Angola]] in 1974, weighing [[1 E4 kg|12...
    48: ...te). Female African elephants have tusks, while female Asian Elephants do not. African elephants have a ...
    67: ...le elephants in battle will run from a male, only males could be used in war.
    75: ... based on size and dominance, which tends to be a male in [[musth]].
    79: Elephants, especially males, have been known to knock down trees when excite...
  173. Gorilla (6336 bytes)
    19: ...65&nbsp;kg. Females are about half the weight of males.
    21: ...ture at 10&ndash;12 years (earlier in captivity); males 11&ndash;13 years, sometimes sooner if they assu...
    27: ...e with maturity. Blackbacks are sexually immature males of up to 11 years of age.
    31: ...or 2&ndash;5 years before being able to attract females to form a new group and start breeding. While in...
    33: ...unrelated male; there is a strong risk that a new male may kill the infants of the dead silverback.
  174. Ostrich (8135 bytes)
    20: ...me white at the wings and tail. Females and young males are greyish-brown, with a bit of white.
    22: ...l [[vestigial organ|vestigial]] wings are used by males in mating displays. They can also provide shadow...
    58: ...hatch after some 35&#8211;45 days. Typically, the male will tend to the hatchlings.
    64: ..._2004_SeanMcClean.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Male and female ostriches on a farm in New Zealand]]
    72: ...ncidents of people being attacked and killed. Big males can be very territorial and aggressive and can a...
  175. Ancient Olympic Games (9077 bytes)
    55: Participation in the games was limited to male athletes; the only way women were allowed to take...
  176. Zeus (17267 bytes)
    48: ...s called [[peleiades]] ("doves") had replaced the male priests.
    267: | Male lover (non-Homeric)
  177. Caesar Augustus (50559 bytes)
    159: ... stood as Augustus&#8217;s oldest and most viable male heir.
  178. Nero (23127 bytes)
    29: ...r. Caligula had remained childless. His closest male relatives at the time were his brothers-in-law [[...
    54: ...etition for influence among Agrippina and the two male advisors. Nero was reportedly unsatisfied with hi...
  179. Demographics of Estonia (4738 bytes)
    20: *0-14 years: 18% (male 129,204; female 124,269)
    21: *15-64 years: 68% (male 466,960; female 503,233)
    22: *65 years and over: 14% (male 67,781; female 140,024) (2000 est.)
    37: * at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
    38: *under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
  180. Vatican City (21873 bytes)
    146: ...t population of the Vatican City is predominately male, although two orders of nuns live in the Vatican....
  181. Judaism (54799 bytes)
    215: *[[Brit milah]] - Welcoming male babies into the covenant through the rite of [[ci...
  182. History of dance (9081 bytes)
    23: ...tate was really only redressed by the rise of the male ballet star [[Nijinsky]], with the [[Ballets Russ...
  183. Egyptian mythology (14567 bytes)
    74: ...], which was to rule Egypt for 300 years. All the male rulers of the dynasty took the name "Ptolemy". Be...
  184. Chimpanzee (10645 bytes)
    20: ...nd stand 0.9-1.2 m (3-4 ft) tall, while usually females weigh 26-50 kg (57-110 pounds) and stand 0.66-1 ...
    26: ...ed on beta males led by a relatively weak [[alpha male|alpha]], and highly complex social relationships;...
  185. Mosquito (10897 bytes)
    15: ...[halteres]], a slender body, and long legs. The females of most mosquito species suck blood from other a...
    21: The female mosquito (in many common species) sucks the blood...
    25: ...to get the necessary protein. Males differ from females, with mouth parts not suitable for blood sucking...
    30: ...Louis encephalitis]]) overwinter as mated adult females.
    33: ...eem to attract mosquitoes more than others. Being male, being overweight, and having [[blood type|type '...
  186. Ocelot (4489 bytes)
    19: ...od is estimated to be 70-80 days. Generally the female will have one or two cubs, born in the autumn wit...
    25: ... habitat, and the introduction of highways. Young male ocelots are frequently killed by cars during thei...
  187. Tiger (11674 bytes)
    19: ...re|metres]] (8'6" and 10'9") in length, and the females are between 2.3 and 2.75 metres (7'6" and 9') in...
    46: ...inbreeding]]. By far the largest subspecies, with males exceeding lengths of 12 feet and weights of 850 ...
    57: ...n [[27 September]], [[1937]]; this was an adult female. No Balinese Tiger was ever held in captivity. Th...
  188. Triple jump (2149 bytes)
    5: The current male and female world record holders are [[Jonathan Edwards (athl...
  189. Tennis (24557 bytes)
    80: ...against larger, more powerful players, and many female and young players use the two-handed stroke today...
    129: Among the greatest male players of the Open era are [[Rod Laver]], [[Jimm...
    133: Who is the greatest male player of all time? It is impossible to give a c...
    140: *[[List of female tennis players]]
    141: *[[List of male tennis players]]
  190. List of male tennis players (14849 bytes)
    1: The following lists male [[tennis]] players from over the years who have b...
    319: *[[List of female tennis players]]
  191. List of female tennis players (8364 bytes)
    1: List of female [[tennis]] players:
    141: * [[Katerina Maleeva]] (Bulgaria)
    142: * [[Magdalena Maleeva]] (Bulgaria)
    143: * [[Manuela Maleeva]] (Bulgaria)
    274: '''See also:''' [[List of male tennis players]], [[List of tennis players]], [[L...
  192. Fashion (7767 bytes)
    21: ...d from military models, and changes in a European male silhouette are galvanized in theatres of European...
  193. Black widow spider (5745 bytes)
    17: ...le black widow spiders are half the size of the female, but with longer legs.
    26: ...male live on for 180 days after maturing, while a male only lives on for another ninety days (1).
    28: ...o synthesize a drug that will not only serve as a male contraceptive, but will also work in a fashion si...
    33: Image:Black widow ventral 1370.jpg|Female black widow showing red "hourglass" marker
  194. Brown recluse spider (5698 bytes)
    40: ... to mate with, having no particular territory. Females are more compact, dark brown or black, and rarel...
  195. Cahokia (4221 bytes)
    13: ...ed from the mound, most from mass graves and some males missing hands and heads which seem to indicate t...
  196. Native American (42651 bytes)
    154: ...the opposite or both sexes, doing both male and female (or primarily "opposite-gender") work, and often ...
    244: ... Two-Spirit Tradition], an essay on shamanism and male love in Native American religion.
  197. Inca Empire (25571 bytes)
    102: ...pi'' ranked highest. It was woven by ''aqlla'' (female virgins of the sun god temple) and used solely fo...
  198. Aztec mythology (10599 bytes)
    62: ...' or ''Ometecuhtli'' (male) and ''Omecihuatl'' (female)) - the god(s) of duality, pregenator(s) of souls...
    94: *[[Xochiquetzal]] - goddess of female sexuality, prostitutes, flowers, pleasure, craft,...
  199. Walrus (6653 bytes)
    18: ...ic Ocean|Pacific]] walrus is slightly larger, the male weighing up to 4000&nbsp;lb (1.8&nbsp;t).
    28: ...ghts breeds with large numbers of females. Older male walruses frequently bear large scars from these b...
    32: Smaller numbers of males summer in the [[Gulf of Anadyr]] on the south sh...
    36: ...with its mother. Females mature at about 6 years, males at 9 or 10. A walrus lives about 40 years.
    42: ... carving. The natives call the [[penis]] bone of male an ''[[oosik]]'' and use it in making knives. Wal...
  200. Wolf (22358 bytes)
    22: ...ody length. The [[male]]s are larger than the [[female]]s. The coloration runs from grey to grey brown b...
    29: ...ter coat and keep it further into the spring than males.
    39: ...rarchy and led by an [[alpha male]] and [[alpha female]]. This social structure was originally thought t...
    41: ...vely strict, with the [[alpha]]s (one male, one female) on top and the [[omega]] at the bottom. The hier...
    109: ... Bad Wolf]]. [[Norse mythology]] includes several malevolent wolves: the giant [[Fenrisulfr]], eldest ch...
  201. Insect (14296 bytes)
    113: ...l that enables them to detect the pheromones of female moths over distances of many kilometers.
  202. Moose (8141 bytes)
    15: ...P near Leigh Lake-750px.JPG|thumb|right|250px|A female moose.]]
    16: ...'Cervidae'' by the form of the [[antler]]s of its males. These arise as cylindrical beams projecting on ...
    24: ...riangular naked patch below the nostrils; and the males have a peculiar sac, known as the bell, hanging ...
    26: ....1 to 2.3&nbsp;m (6.5 to 7.5&nbsp;feet). Only the males have antlers, averaging 160&nbsp;cm (63 in.) acr...
    28: ...for being the largest known modern deer; it was a male standing 2.34&nbsp;m (7 ft 8 in) at the shoulders...
  203. Opossum (4544 bytes)
    5: ... [[male]]s usually being somewhat larger than [[female]]s.
  204. Platypus (21900 bytes)
    22: ...females. Males are around one-third larger than females. There is substantial variation in average size ...
    26: The male platypus has [[venom]]ous ankle spurs, used in vi...
    28: The male platypus reproductive structure is much like that...
    30: The female reproductive system, on the other hand, differs f...
    35: ...e fifth recorded instance included the female and male circling one another in tight circles.
  205. Sumer (14409 bytes)
    46: ...vilization]]s, the culture remained predominantly male-dominated.
  206. Leather (7695 bytes)
    57: ...a thriving [[Leather subculture]] in lesbian, gay male, bisexual, transgender, and BDSM culture.
  207. Celtic mythology (25486 bytes)
    89: ... the tribe and the basic Celtic god of whom other male Celtic deities were variants. Celtic gods were la...
    116: Male gods included [[Cu Roi]] and [[Goibniu]], the imm...
  208. Byzantine art (10470 bytes)
    9: ...artistic tradition from its beginnings, and the female nude had been similarly elevated from the [[4th c...
  209. Knights Hospitaller (26158 bytes)
    5: ...istians were not allowed to buy slaves, male or female, and had few other privileges, they were allowed ...
  210. Cherokee (38956 bytes)
    152: ...es of "extended families" where another male or female would cohabitate with a married couple. Provided ...
  211. Calico Jack (2810 bytes)
    2: ... now most famous for having the two most famous female pirates in his crew, [[Anne Bonny]] and [[Mary Re...
    10: ...ected member of the crew and fought alongside her male counterparts in numerous successful engagements.
    14: ...f if [[clemency]] was given to Anne and another female pirate called Mary Read. Whether or not this is t...
  212. Timeline of the French Revolution (9550 bytes)
    112: * [[August 23]]: Levy of entire male population, the ''[[Lev饠en masse]]''
  213. Genghis Khan (31537 bytes)
    141: ...ation (as the study was only able to cover direct male descendants) is descended from Genghis Khan, alth...
  214. Min (god) (6198 bytes)
    8: As a god of male sexual potency, he was honoured during the [[coro...
  215. Easter (31700 bytes)
    172: ... when they can pour a bucket of cold water on any male. The habit slightly varies across the Czech Repub...
  216. Architecture of Ancient Greece (9161 bytes)
    27: ...ts and exercise: they were the social centres for male citizens. Greek towns also needed at least one [[...
  217. Christmas tree (16574 bytes)
    5: ...the [[Greek mythology|Greek]] god of [[wine]] and male [[fertility]], [[Dionysus]] (dubbed by some moder...
    9: ...Scandinavia]] the [[pagan]] kings sacrificed nine males of each species at the sacred groves every ninth...
  218. Guinea pig (19730 bytes)
    39: ...l groups which consist of sows (females), a boar (male), and the young (which in a break with the preced...
    60: ...sound) in the second or third week after birth. Females can breed when only three weeks old. [[Litter#Ot...
    102: ...is not recommended for the casual owner. Breeding males produce a strong musk that smells much like bee'...
    142: *In 2000 a male guinea pig named Sooty made news around the world...
  219. Copper (13595 bytes)
    144: ...In Europe, [[Oetzi the Iceman]], a well preserved male dated to [[3200 BC]], was found with a copper tip...
  220. Lion (11511 bytes)
    16: ...le takes over a pride and ousts the previous lead male, the conqueror may kill any cubs left in the prid...
    17: ...s. However, it takes 6-9 estrus cycles for the female to become pregnant.
    25: ...d to be larger than the sub-Saharan ones, and the males had more extensive manes. They are thought to ha...
    36: ... concealment, they are ineffective predators. The male lion gets his share of all kills by his pride. Li...
    42: ...tacks by other large predators, and especially by male lions killing the younger ones while taking over ...
  221. Election (15836 bytes)
    23: Originally in the U.S., for example, only white male property holders enjoyed the right to elect and b...
  222. Castanets (2430 bytes)
    3: ...eld in the right hand, with the larger ''macho'' (male) pair held in the left.
  223. Canary (4349 bytes)
    24: ...e. Monks started breeding them and only sold the males (which sing). This kept the birds in short supp...
    50: ...image:Wikicanary2.jpg| Male canary and breeding female]]
  224. Chicken (21473 bytes)
    23: ...he bird by redirecting bloodflow to the skin. In males, the combs are often more prominent, though this...
    139: ...and pointed give more male, rounded eggs mainly female hatchlings.
  225. Kiwi (6303 bytes)
    25: ...eight from flight requirements, some Brown Kiwi females carry and lay a single 450 gram egg. For its siz...
    31: ...usually lays two eggs, which are incubated by the male.
    36: ... season, each one in a different nest. Male and female both incubate. These Kiwi are distributed in the ...
    40: ... grey-brown [[plumage]] with lighter bands. The female lays just one egg, with both sexes incubating. Po...
    42: ....3 kg. She lays one egg which is incubated by the male.
  226. Puma (9263 bytes)
    37: ...es males may reach as much as 200 pounds. Adult females can be 7 ft (2 m) long and weigh about 75 pounds...
    42: ...50 km&sup2;) stretch for their territory; adult females take 20 to 60 mile&sup2; (50 to 150 km&sup2;) on...
    44: ...other male, he may kill the kittens of resident females so that they will become receptive to mating.
    51: ... day, but was fought off by other bikers. A young male puma was shot nearby by rangers later in the day.
  227. Ox (2803 bytes)
    3: ...s. Often they are adult, [[castration|castrated]] males. Usually an ox is over four years old due to the...
    9: ...is the male of a breed, rather than the smaller female. Also, the gait of the ox is often important to ...
  228. Red Fox (7749 bytes)
    48: ...ere a "harem" of related female foxes "share" one male), and various combinations thereof. Sometimes yo...
    57: ... seconds. Although a female may mate with several males (who fight amongst each other for the right to),...
    59: ...up to and after birthing, otherwise leaving the female alone with her pups in a "maternity den". An aver...
  229. Hamster (25289 bytes)
    54: ...ated immediately. Note also that, if a male and female hamster live together without fighting, then they...
    92: ...r with several babies in each litter. Male and female hamsters are therefore usually kept in separate e...
    94: ...During this time, and especially after birth, the male hamster is likely to eat some of the pups. The av...
    96: ...lly mature female hamster has a trim tail line; a male's tail line bulges on both sides.
  230. Reindeer (6508 bytes)
    22: ...December, for young males in the spring and for females during the summer. The antlers typically have tw...
    33: ...ry, while the remaining herd consists mostly of females, usually a [[matriarchy]].
    48: ...ime was performed by a bite) ''hierke'' and the female sex is called ''vaya''. The name ''Caribou'' is t...
  231. Llama (12988 bytes)
    34: ...inder edge of the [[premaxilla]], followed in the male at least by a moderate-sized, pointed, curved tru...
  232. Mandrill (3466 bytes)
    17: ...r colors. Males can weigh up to 60 lbs (30 kg), females about half as much. They grow to be about half a...
    21: ...rom 5 to 50 individuals, led by an older dominant male.
    31: ...tion, the female will depart and both she and the male will finger their respective genitals and sniff a...
  233. Pinniped Facts and Pictures (2285 bytes)
    18: ...ll-grown and is 1.2 metres long; the largest, the male [[Southern Elephant Seal]], is over 4 metres long...
  234. Chinchilla (7913 bytes)
    20: ...U.S.]] for breeding. Only three of these were [[female]]. Since the mid-[[1960]]s, chinchillas have beco...
    26: ... chinchilla females are significantly bigger than males. Chinchillas can breed any time of the year. The...
    37: ...ore no more than one male should be kept with a female. If living space is too small, chinchillas will b...
  235. Leatherback Sea Turtle (10187 bytes)
    22: ...weight of up to 1500 lb (600 kg). One individual male weighed 916 kg, though other turtles of this siz...
    40: ...ere hatched to deposit their [[egg|eggs]]. One female may lay as many as ten clutches in one breeding s...
    42: ...y, eliminate the risk of sperm depletion, allow females to select the highest quality sperm, and increas...
    46: ...he remaining 40 being smaller and sterile. The female carefully back-fills the nest, making sure to di...
    64: ... to emerge. Finally humans may disturb nesting females out of curiosity.
  236. Polychrotidae (5759 bytes)
    26: ...the [[Knight Anole]], can surpass 12 inches; some males of the Knight Anole species can even reach two f...
    35: ...curs for several months beginning in late spring. Males employ head bobbing and [[dewlap]] extension in ...
    47: ...area. For example: If an intruder approaches, the male will compress its body, extend the dewlap, and bo...
  237. Gecko (4899 bytes)
    19: ... capable of reproducing without copulating with a male.
  238. Water dragon (1570 bytes)
    14: ...especially ''P. cocincinus,'' though a full-grown male of that species will measure about three feet (1 ...
  239. Grasshopper (7846 bytes)
    2: ...image = [[Image:Abisares_viridipennis.jpg|200px|Female Humpback grasshopper, "Abisares viridipennis"]] |...
    16: ...ing the sperm, into the females ovipositor. The female then lays the fertilized egg pod in the ground, u...
    38: ...oducts to the exterior, and accessory glands. In males,t he testes are made up of a number of follicles...
    40: In females, each ovary is made up of ovarioles. These conv...
    42: During copulation, the male introduces sperm into the vagina through its aede...
  240. Praying mantis (4062 bytes)
    19: ...imes starting by biting off his head. Usually the male mantids will try to get the job done before they ...
  241. Kudu (2825 bytes)
    14: ...make himself look big. Males only are seen with females in the mating season, and they'll only be in gro...
    15: *When pregnant the female will leave the [[herd]] and give birth. They will...
  242. Akbash Dog (3434 bytes)
    26: ... 90 pounds for the female and 120 (54 kg) for the male, but it is leaner than other Turkish guard dog br...
  243. Akita Inu (3313 bytes)
    49: ...erage a full grown male can reach 120 pounds, a female around 90-100 pounds. Akitas come in many differ...
  244. German Shorthaired Pointer (6091 bytes)
    58: ...tch usually slightly shorter and lighter than the male.
  245. Australian Cattle Dog (7087 bytes)
    69: ...to 19 inches (43 to 48 cm) at the [[withers]]. A male Australian Cattle Dog should measure about 18 to ...
  246. Bernese Mountain Dog (5406 bytes)
    63: ...ese mountain dogs.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Female and male Bernese Mountain Dogs]]
  247. Dog (69384 bytes)
    29: ...ifically denote a [[male]] domestic dog. The [[female]] is known as a '''[[bitch]]'''. A young dog is c...
    217: ... unlike undomesticated canine species where the females typically come into once season a year, usually ...
    226: ...e or have puppies before spaying, and likewise, a male dog does not need the experience of mating before...
  248. Boerboel (2373 bytes)
    40: The ideal height for male Boerboels is from 64 to 70 cm (24 to 27 inches) a...
  249. Cardigan Welsh Corgi (3156 bytes)
    43: ...ighs from 30 to 38 lb. (13.6 to 17.2 kg) for the male and 25 to 34 lb. (11.3 to 15.4 kg) for the bitch....
  250. Chinook (dog) (4501 bytes)
    39: ...expedition]] with a large, tawny [[Mastiff]]-like male. Photos of ?Chinook? show a drop-eared dog with a...

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