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Captured these two Leopards mating in the Sabi Sands area near Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Really happy to capture the male airborne as he quickly removed himself from the female.
These beetles were doing their productivity stuff at our office garden, so that their copulation can increase the garden population!
Today's forecast was for snow so I headed out yesterday afternoon to get in a good walk. Of course I had to check out the bird scene while I was on my rounds!
Once again it was very windy and there was a lack of waterfowl on the river. I only saw a couple of gulls and one pair of mallards.
The snow pack is really slushy and it made for a challenging walk. All in all I was grateful for the ability to be out in the fresh air! It is wonderful to be able to see and hear all the nature that surrounds us.
Thanks everyone for your views, fave's and comments! They are greatly appreciated!
Dancing and puffing for his mate.
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A grouse of open grassland, the Greater Prairie-Chicken is known for its mating dance. Males display together in a communal lek, where they raise ear-like feathers above their heads, inflate orange sacs on the sides of their throats, and stutter-step around while making a deep hooting moan.
Stan doing his gypsy call to the horses.
'Maybe if we gave them some bread they would move down...'
Got you again mate.
California Quail have an interesting behavior before mating…the male jumps around the female while she lays on the ground and he pushes his beak into her back a number of times before doing the deed. Birds.
This cute little bugs were seen by the Muthukad forest range near Kakkayam, Calicut
Explore #238 on July 06, 2008
During mating, the male Damselfly clasps the female by her neck while she bends her body around to his reproductive organs – this is called a mating wheel.
I was debating whether to post this or not,but in the end I thought, this is nature and something every farmer would see. As well as anyone who would visit a farm.
Carden Alvar, Ontario
Canada
Taken at about 400 ft away. Two 2xTC stacked with 600 version III for 2400mm and heavily cropped resting on truck window. Auto focus with live view works. Sturgeon County
Osprey mating sequence. In this image the male's tail feathers are dominant, but the female's closed tail feathers can also be seen just above the male's large tail feather flair.
Taken at Bethany Beach, Delaware.
The POV was not intentional - it is just circumstance that it happened when I was standing on the boardwalk in this nature center.
Typically bald eagles have one mate for life. Their lifespan is generally 20-30 years in the wild. This picture shows the different size between male and female, with the female being the larger of the pair.
I found this pair of large Wasps (Sphecidae -- Eremnophila aureonotata) mating near Cattail Pond, Patuxent Research Refuge, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Aren't butterflies amazing?!
A butterfly's life has four stages. It starts as an egg, typically attached to the underside of a leaf. The egg hatches into the butterfly's larval form -- the caterpillar. A caterpillar's job is to consume enough food to sustain itself during its transformation into a butterfly. This transformation takes place in the butterfly's pupal stage, when the butterfly is inside its chrysalis. Finally, an adult butterfly emerges from the chrysalis. While the larval butterfly was built for eating, the adult is built for mating.
Butterflies reproduce the way other animals do -- sperm from a male fertilizes eggs from a female. Males and females of the same species recognize one another by the size, color, shape and vein structure of the wings, all of which are species specific. Butterflies also recognize each other through pheromones, or scents. During mating, males use clasping organs on their abdomens to grasp females.
Mating Behavior
Once mature, a male dragonfly or damselfly establishes a territory from which he chases other males. When on territory, he produces packets of sperm called spermatophores at the tip of his abdomen (tenth segment), reaches the tip forward and places the spermatophores in a depression on the lower surface of the second abdominal segment.
With his sperm receptacle filled, the male flies out and grasps a female's head with his clasping genitalia at the abdominal tip. Each species' male genitalia fit the head of only the female of that species. (Slaty Skimmer Clamped in Tandem.) In some dragonflies and damselflies, the shape of the male genitalia is the most constant and accurate identifier of the insect's species.
Once the male has grasped a female, they fly in tandem for some time (Swamp Spreadwing in Tandem). The male usually flies while the female rests. Rarely, the female will fly while the male rests. It is unusual for both odonates to be flying at the same time.After some time, the female reaches the tip of her abdomen below her body and grasps the male's second segment to pick up the spermatophores he placed there. During this process, called the wheel formation, the two dragonflies take on a circular or heart-shaped pose. The two may stay in the wheel formation for upwards of fifteen minutes before the female releases and returns to the tandem position.