Sexual Coercion in Animal Mating

Females invest less in offspring and have more to gain from mating with lots of males

Males invest less in offspring and have more to gain from mating with lots of females (correct)

Females invest more in offspring and have more to gain from mating with lots of males

Males invest more in offspring and have more to gain from mating with only one female

To ensure that the offspring are healthier

To establish dominance in the mating process

To make the recipient more likely to mate with the aggressor (correct)

To make the recipient less likely to mate with others

Because sexual coercion can impose costs on females (correct)

Because they benefit from being coerced into mating

Because it is adaptive for females to incur costs from sexual coercion

Because they want to mate with multiple males