While they do sometimes live solitarily, they are more commonly found in groups that average 10 – 20 individuals, with two to four adult males, four to seven adult females and the rest juveniles.

While married to Mao, Chiang adopted two concubines ( concubinage was still a common practice for well-to-do, non-Christian males in China ): he married Yao Yecheng ( 姚冶誠, 1889 – 1972 ) in 1912 and Chen Jieru ( 陳潔如, 1906 – 1971 ) in December 1921.

While northern fur seal males aggressively select and defend the specific females in their harems, males of southern species of fur seals tend to protect spatial territories, and females are free to choose or switch their mates according to their own preference or social hierarchy.

While pro wrestling is often described simplistically as a " soap opera for males ", it has also been cited as filling the role of past forms of literature and theatre ; a synthesis of classical heroics, commedia dell ' arte, revenge tragedies, morality plays, and burlesque.

While males have long tails, female tastes in tail length are still more extreme.

While some outsized Pacific males can weigh as much as, most weigh between.

While the social sciences sometimes approach gender as a social construct, and gender studies particularly do, research in the natural sciences investigates whether biological differences in males and females influence the development of gender in humans ; both inform debate about how far biological differences influence the formation of gender identity.

While they do not sing or call out like males do, they do answer back ( an extremely rare phenomenon in the animal world ).

While females have a higher increase in body mass in their first year, their growth rate is comparatively slower than that of males by the age of 3 – 5.

While females use more verbal aggression than males.

While females move between satellite territories of different males, they appear to remain within the same territories for most of their lives, mating with the same or closely related males over the course of their life span.

While caring for the young, the males will charge at any perceived threat that approach the chicks including female rheas and humans.

While unsuccessful risk-seeking may limit reproductive success for both sexes, males may potentially increase their reproductive success much more than females from successful risk-seeking.

While most realms have, in the documented past, calculated membership in the royal house as descending through the male line ( sometimes allowing females to inherit and sometimes not ), most European monarchies have now constitutionally eliminated preference in the line of succession to the throne for males ( Sweden, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark ), and some non-European royal families have contemplated doing so ( Japan, Thailand ).

While unsuccessful risk-seeking may limit reproductive success for both sexes, males may potentially increase their reproductive success much more than females from successful risk-seeking.

While so perched, males in particular frequently flick their tail and sometimes their wings to show the white tail and wing flashes, for display or territorial communication signals to other Whinchats.

While most of the graves contain the remains of males, some females were also discovered, though some burials may be from medieval times.

While she was generally favored by the males of Dogpatch, she could be deadly for a confirmed bachelor to encounter on Sadie Hawkins Day.

While boys and girls differ greatly there is not a one to one link between sex and gender role with males always being masculine and female always being feminine.

While crotch ropes are most commonly intended for women, specific variations exist for males.

While the females actively defend their territory against other females, the males roam over much larger areas of with considerable overlap.

While the Bible describes David as a beautiful youth, and we can accept a classical basis for the pose and the nudity of the statue ( Greco-Roman heroes were typically portrayed as nude males standing in contrapposto ), there are nevertheless several disconcerting elements to Donatello's David.

While female dibamids are entirely limbless, the males retain small, flap-like hind limbs, which they use to grip their partner during mating.

While humans and other organisms generally place less value on future costs / benefits as compared to those in the present, some have shorter time horizons than others and these people tend to be less cooperative.

While it does not bias the OLS coefficient estimates, the standard errors tend to be underestimated ( and the t-scores overestimated ) when the autocorrelations of the errors at low lags are positive.

While unsustainable imbalances may persist for long periods ( cf, Singapore and New Zealand ’ s surpluses and deficits, respectively ), the distortions likely to be caused by large flows of wealth out of one economy and into another tend to become intolerable.

While the X-Men tend to the wounded, Cyclops finally forgives Professor X.

While ecosystem goods have traditionally been recognized as being the basis for things of economic value, ecosystem services tend to be taken for granted.

While k ' stulaami can be born as a random mutation in any t ' skrang line, they tend to congregate into communities filled with their own kind.

While not the exclusive domain of youth, extreme sports tend to have a younger-than-average target demographic.

These " politically neutral " groups tend to avoid global conflicts and view the settlement of inter-human conflict as separate from regard for nature-in direct contradiction to the ecology movement and peace movement which have increasingly close links: While Green Parties and Greenpeace, and groups like the ACTivist Magazine for example, regard ecology, biodiversity and an end to non-human extinction as absolutely basic to peace, the local groups may not, and may see a high degree of global competition and conflict as justifiable if it lets them preserve their own local uniqueness.

While City Streets and other pre-WWII crime melodramas such as Fury ( 1936 ) and You Only Live Once ( 1937 ), both directed by Fritz Lang, are categorized as full-fledged noir in Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward's film noir encyclopedia, other critics tend to describe them as " proto-noir " or in similar terms.

While black-and-white film has no color temperature itself, the silver halide grains themselves tend to be slightly more responsive to blue light, and therefore will have daylight and tungsten speeds-e. g.

While broomstick weddings have been associated with gypsies, the sources that make reference to the practice tend to repeat and recycle claims.

While Merlot wines tend to mature faster than Cabernet Sauvignon, some examples can continue to develop in the bottle for decades.

While some studies have historically found extremely low weight estimates for Quetzalcoatlus, as low as for a 10-meter individual, a majority of estimates published since the 2000s have been higher, and the tend toward.

Historian Henry Commager wrote that " Even when definitions of terrorism allow for state terrorism, state actions in this area tend to be seen through the prism of war or national self-defense, not terror .” While states may accuse other states of state-sponsored terrorism when they support insurgencies, individuals who accuse their governments of terrorism are seen as radicals, because actions by legitimate governments are not generally seen as illegitimate.

While the generations born before the 1940s tend to use the older terms of Arabic or Persian origin, the younger generations favor new expressions.

While Sunday services in most congregations tend to be spiritual in nature ( as different from theological ), it is not unusual for a part of a church's membership to attend pagan, Buddhist, or other spiritual study or worship groups as an alternative means of worship.

While Campbell refers to heavy batteries requiring a " load-bearing hull " and " cranky, even unseaworthy vessels ", Desmond points out that electric boaters tend to prefer efficient, low-wash hull forms that are more friendly to river banks.

While marginal costs tend to be accordingly low, initial development and construction costs are highly dependent on performance, especially the intended mass, acceleration, and velocity of projectiles.

While cohabitation has been shown to be associated with higher divorce rates, a study indicates that divorce-prone couples tend to first cohabit, and not that cohabitation by itself increases the likelihood of divorce.

While those who have expressive aphasia tend to retain good spoken language comprehension, other types of aphasia can render patients completely unable to understand any language at all, unable to understand any spoken language ( Auditory verbal agnosia ), while still other types preserve language comprehension, but with deficits.

While individuals with expressive aphasia tend to have a good ability to self-monitor their language output ( they " hear what they say " and make corrections ), other types of aphasics can seem entirely unaware of their language deficits.

While switches may learn about topologies at many layers, and forward at one or more layers, they do tend to have common features.

While these measures may not have made Patton popular, they did tend to restore a sense of discipline and unit pride that may have been missing when Fredendall was still in command.

While the " red " parties tend to focus on the adverse effects of capitalism on the working class, the " green " parties tend to focus on the ecological consequences of unrestrained capitalism.