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Mating behaviour; Mating ritual (disambiguation); Mating behavior

dinosaurs mating      
<humour> The activity said to occur when yet another {big iron} merger or buy-out occurs; reflects a perception by hackers that these signal another stage in the long, slow dying of the mainframe industry. Also described as "elephants mating": lots of noise and action at a high level, with an eventual outcome in the somewhat distant future. In its glory days of the 1960s, it was "IBM and the Seven Dwarves": Burroughs, Control Data, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and Univac. Early on, RCA sold out to Univac and GE also sold out, and it was "IBM and the BUNCH" (an acronym for Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell) for a while. Honeywell was bought out by Bull. Univac in turn merged with Sperry to form Sperry/Univac, which was later merged (although the employees of Sperry called it a hostile takeover) with Burroughs to form Unisys in 1986 (this was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined). In 1991 AT&T absorbed NCR, only to spit it out again in 1996. Unisys bought Convergent Technologies in 1988 and later others. More such earth-shaking unions of doomed giants seem inevitable. [More dates?] [Jargon File] (1998-07-10)
Assortative mating         
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MATING PATTERN IN WHICH INDIVIDUALS WITH SIMILAR PHENOTYPES (E.G. SIZE, COLOUR) MATE WITH ONE ANOTHER MORE OFTEN
Assortative pairing; Assortive mating; Level Theory
Assortative mating (also referred to as positive assortative mating or homogamy) is a mating pattern and a form of sexual selection in which individuals with similar phenotypes or genotypes mate with one another more frequently than would be expected under a random mating pattern. A majority of the phenotypes that are subject to assortative mating are body size, visual signals (e.
Dinosaurs (short story)         
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SHORT STORY BY WALTER JON WILLIAMS
Dinosaurs (story)
"Dinosaurs" is a science fiction story by American writer Walter Jon Williams. It was first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in June 1987 and subsequently republished in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection (1988), The 1988 Annual World's Best SF (1988), Best New SF 2 (1988), Facets (1991), Isaac Asimov's Aliens (1991), ZomerSFeer (Dutch language, 1996), Future on Ice (1998), The Furthest Horizon: SF Adventures to the Far Future (2000), and Exploring the Horizons: Explorers, and The Furthest Horizon (2000).

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Mating ritual

Mating rituals may refer to:

  • Mating, procreative behavior in animals
  • Courtship display, animal behaviors involving mating rituals