Why do animals have a mating season

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Most animals mate at a certain time of year. One of our evolutionary advantages is we can continuously mate and have young. However, if you look at birth patterns, youll notice that most birthdays tend to occur at certain times of year. For a mammal with no official mating season, its surprising that themajority of births occur between July and September. September is the most common birth month in the US, according to one Harvard study, with September 16th being the most common day. Count back the months and youll realize that these babies were conceived around the holidays.

What definitely does not work, despite the folklore, is human urine. Ive seen it all, Graham sighs. Once, I was called out to a flat shared by six women. They were all peeing in a bucket and pouring it around their shed.

Some call this our mating season. But in fact, births peak two times a year, around the holidays, and again in late spring to early summer. How do we know this? More children are conceived at these times, more STDs are diagnosed and treated, and more condoms are purchased. Abortions also peak at these same six month intervals. A 2001 study suggests that late autumn and early winter are the best times of the year for sperm health, as they are when men are more likely to have a higher sperm count. While from August to October, sperm counts are at their lowest.

As co-founder and director of Fox-A-Gon, he advises on solutions to a range of fox-related problems across Britain not only noise and mess, but holes in playing fields, chewed cables, discoloured lawns and more.

And, at 3am, it drives my dog bonkers. The streets around my home in north Bristol, as in many other cities across the UK, are rife with skulks groups of foxes. Theyre fearless, destructive, messy and very loud.

Grahams team then block holes and cavities with galvanised mesh, and fill in the gaps to ensure the animals cant return. Trapping foxes to relocate them is illegal without a long-term plan to introduce them to a new territory, known as a soft release process. This can take months.

Far more effective is a water scarer, a garden-hose device with an infrared beam for a trigger. When it detects movement, it fires 30ft jets of water. Once a fox has suffered a soaking, it quickly learns to stay away.