Those that had access to sugar are significantly less likely to remate, though a high percentage do.

There are additional reasons for the inability to remate.

Furthermore, spiny genitals can injure the females and make them less likely to remate.

Birds that are displaced from a territory but survive usually try to remate and (re)claim a breeding territory later in life.

For their part, females do not choose mates based on size, and will sometimes remate with smaller males who cannot take over a territory and instead adopt a satellite position nearby.

Seminal fluid in males of Drosophila melanogaster may contain chemicals that increase the amount of time it takes for females to remate, decrease the length of successive matings, or keep her from remating at all.