are there any monogamous animals?

Question

which ones?

Answer 1

well, every one I've hit on has turned me down so i'd say yes all of them.

Answer 2

Maybe, but nobody knows for sure. For years, scientists thought that there were monogamous animals, especially among bird species, but new technology like DNA fingerprinting has shown that this is not the case. Here's an article on the issue: http://www.trinity.edu/rnadeau/FYS/Barash%20on%20monogamy.htm

Here's an excerpt from the article:

Biologists have long understood that monogamy is rare in mammals. Of about 4,000 mammalian species, only a handful have ever been called monogamous. The tiny list includes beavers and a couple of other rodents, otters, bats, certain foxes, a few hoofed mammals, and some primates -- notably gibbons and the tamarins and marmosets of the tropical New World. By contrast, birds have long been the poster children of monogamous fidelity. A common figure, first reported by the great ornithologist David Lack in the 1960's, has been that 92 percent of the 9,700 bird species are monogamous. This figure has now proven to be incorrect. By the 1980's, studies employing blood typing as well as analyses of proteins were leading researchers to question whether social monogamy and sexual monogamy were necessarily synonymous. Then came DNA fingerprinting in the 1990's, and a veritable avalanche of new findings. Time and again, it was revealed that 10, 20, even sometimes 40 percent of nestlings were not fathered by the social father.

Answer 3

Yes there are. There are several species of birds and mammals that are monogamous. Although this is mainly seen in the bird kingdom.

Some examples include: Swans, penquins, hawks, eagles, beavers, bats, gibbons, tamarins, otters.....

Answer 4

Over 90 percent of birds are momogamous. So are gibbon apes, wolves, termites, coyotes, barn owls, beavers, bald eagles, golden eagles, condors, swans, brolga cranes, French angel fish, sandhill cranes, pigeons, prions, red-tailed hawks, anglerfish, ospreys, prairie voles, and black vultures.

Answer 5

The American Bald Eagle. One mate for life.

Answer 6

yes there are.
most parrot species are monogamous.

Answer 7

Swans, ducks, eagles, wolves, penguins, foxes as far as I know.

Answer 8

I believe I heard that Canada Geese are... I think

Answer 9

Mourning doves, I read somewhere, Canadian geese, and whales.

Answer 10

swans