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It has been proposed to move Category:Animal sex to Category:Animals mating

Reason: "Animal sex" is ambiguous three ways—sex (copulation/spawning) v sex (sexual play) v sex (biological reproductive type)—and potentially misleading: species that engage in sexual activity, for reasons other than reproduction, are the exception; and there are various mating mechanisms that do not by any stretch of imagination resonate with the word 'sex'. A clear and concise name is available, there should be no reason to retain this one, other than it's a bother to rename all subcategories using the same name structure.

Now, "mating" in biology technically *does* include pretty much any behaviour that's related to reproduction (like pair formation, nesting, parental care), **but** with established separate categories already existing for those aspects, and the higher level concept of "reproduction" already being known as "reproduction", "mating" should remain a clear and intuitive term to specifically mean behaviours that directly result in gamete transfer and fertilization, and the obvious superior name for these categories. --Pitke (talk) 15:19, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

Date: tagged 27 April 2025.

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Bot command: {{move cat|Animal sex|Animals matinguser = {{subst:REVISIONUSER}} |reason="Animal sex" is ambiguous three ways—sex (copulation/spawning) v sex (sexual play) v sex (biological reproductive type)—and potentially misleading: species that engage in sexual activity, for reasons other than reproduction, are the exception; and there are various mating mechanisms that do not by any stretch of imagination resonate with the word 'sex'. A clear and concise name is available, there should be no reason to retain this one, other than it's a bother to rename all subcategories using the same name structure. Now, "mating" in biology technically *does* include pretty much any behaviour that's related to reproduction (like pair formation, nesting, parental care), **but** with established separate categories already existing for those aspects, and the higher level concept of "reproduction" already being known as "reproduction", "mating" should remain a clear and intuitive term to specifically mean behaviours that directly result in gamete transfer and fertilization, and the obvious superior name for these categories. --[[User:Pitke|Pitke]] ([[User talk:Pitke|<span class="signature-talk">talk</span>]]) 15:19, 27 April 2025 (UTC)}}


Difference in words:
Category:Animal sex
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Category:Animals mating
Difference in characters:
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Category:Animals mating

Sex in the sense of "having sex". Don't confuse with Gender.

 See also category: Sex in humans.
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pairwise union of individuals for sexual reproduction - ultimately resulting in the formation of zygotes
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