Sure, do you have anything to back up your intuition that this is just a shortening of one phrase? Where would you find this 'shortening' acceptable, and where

Sure, do you have anything to back up your intuition that this is just a shortening of one phrase? Where would you find this 'shortening' acceptable, and where would you not? "A female will find multiple mates in spring" "The male burrows deep into the ground in the winter and begins to hibernate" These seem fine to me and are not strict shortenings of "The Female of the Species".