peel the paramours from the top

см. например:
The female lobsters (Who also fight hard for territory during the explicitly maternal stages of their existence) identify the top guy quickly, and become irresistibly attracted to him. This is brilliant strategy, in my estimation. It’s also one used by females of many different species, including humans. Instead of undertaking the computationally difficult task of identifying the best man, the females outsource the problem to the machine-like calculations of the dominance hierarchy. They let the males fight it out and peel their paramours from the top
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Note added at 12 hrs (2019-05-08 07:43:06 GMT)
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Если совсем без контекстаи все так , как я предполагаю, то попробовать использовать нейтральное: выбирать [из] лучших/лучшее(го)