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members of a species can recognize mates using appearance, behavior, and smell

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Members of a species can recognize mates using combination of smell, behavior, call and appearance. Recognizing and mating with a member within species is necessary because inter-species mating would result in sterile offspring.

Example: in case of peacocks, males have large colorful feathers, so it is appearance which attracts mating in them.