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Golden Eagles( Aquila chrysaetos). 14.3..2016, Finland.
Just as an accident noticed golden eagle on the top of the huge pine. Lifted my camera towards it and saw another eagle flying towards it. About 30 seconds they sat side by side there. Then they copulated 13 seconds (checked from my pics exifs). After 30 seconds they flew away.....
Cannot complain from bad view. I`d rather would be front, but I cannot complain from once-in-a-lifetime chance....
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Pinal Co., AZ - I was photographing this female with prey when there was a surprise visit from the male.
Copulating Silver Studded Blues (female on the left), one of nine pairs found at Prees Heath yesterday.
Scathophaga spec., copula (Diptera, Scathophagidae)
Dung Flies ..... pair in flight
Dungfliegen .. fliegendes Paar
Møgfluer ........ flyvende par
Exposure time (= flash duration): 50 µs = 1/20.000 s
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If you like my pictures of insects in flight, you should visit my special website on insect flight:
Wenn Ihnen meine Bilder fliegender Insekten gefallen, besuchen Sie bitte meine Homepage speziell zu diesem Thema:
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PLEASE, NO AWARDS, no Copy and Paste Comments and no group icons like "your wonderful photo was seen in group xyz". They will all be deleted sooner or later.
BITTE KEINE AWARDS, kopierte Kommentare oder diese Gruppen-Icons wie "Ich habe Dein wunderbares Bild in Gruppe xyz gesehen". Die lösche ich früher oder später.
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Rhagonycha fulva (Scopoli, 1763) = Cantharis fulva Scopoli, 1763 = Cicindela maculata Fourcroy, 1785 = Rhagonycha cailloli Chobaut, 1914 = Rhagonycha curtithorax Pic, 1920 = Rhagonycha delahoni Schilsky, 1908 = Rhagonycha inapicalis Fiori, 1914 = Rhagonycha terminalis Redtenbacher, 1849 = Telephorus bimaculata De Geer, 1774 = Telephorus melanura Olivier, 1790 = Telephorus usta Gemminger, 1870, le téléphore fauve.
In many places when the flowers start flowering, female TIPHIIDAE/THYNNIDAE wasps climb onto small shrubs or wander over open ground, waiting for a male to come and copulate. During copulation, the males take the females to flowers where they collect nectar and pass it to the female. She curls her body around the drop of nectar and drinks while the male collects more nectar on many different flowers.
Females usually live on the ground or in the leaves of trees looking for and devouring small insects.
Photos: Jean
The secret life of birds:
Great Horned Owls in the creation of the next generation, and afterwards, a pellet regurgitation.
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This pair of delicate Damselflies was part way through mating. The sun was rather bright on their wings and bodies, but I think I like the colourful bokeh even more than the insects.
"Damselflies, like all odonates, have a very interesting breeding system. Before they actually copulate, males and females of many groups spend some considerable time in physical contact with one another, presumably in an effort to assess their potential mate. (In my photo above), a male Damselfy is holding a female Damselfy. This physical contact is made by the male clasping the female's thorax with the four terminal appendages on the end of his abdomen." From link below.
www.enallagma.com/cerci/damselflyMating.html
Short video of mating process, 3:21 minutes:
On 7 August 2015, four of us were extremely fortunate to have the chance to visit the home and highly varied topographic 62-acre property belonging to Frances and David Dover. We felt honoured and privileged to meet and spend time with Frances and David, and also their daughter Carolyn and her husband Clair. A delightful family who welcomed us so warmly into their home and land.
This acreage of grassland, forest, rolling hills - and special gardens - is not far from Millarville, SW of Calgary. In fact, it's in an area that I often drive through when I only have time for, or only feel like doing, a short drive. Amazing what little gems exist out there.
This is not just a beautiful property, but is very special for various reasons. For one thing, read any history of Alberta and you will find the Dover family, including David's mother, Mary Dover. Second, among the trees and open "lawns", there are Peony flower beds, containing 100-150 heritage Peonies, each one different, that have now multiplied to more than 300 plants. Unfortunately, they bloomed a couple of weeks early this year, and all the flowers had gone to seed. Another open area had a different kind of ground cover - Thyme, which smelled wonderful. If I remember correctly, this was the open space where the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra performed on one occasion!
There are two large ponds on the property and another smaller area of water that they hope to turn into a Japanese Garden. There is a total of seven wetland basins, including these. It was while walking around the Japanese Garden that a large brown 'shape' could just be seen through the dense trees - a handsome Moose buck. I will look properly at the four or so photos I just managed to get and may slip one of them into my photostream sometime soon, just for the record, definitely not for the photo quality : ) This was also where a Great Horned Owl was seen flying through the trees by some of us (not me, ha!).
There are grassy paths winding through the acreage, up and down hill, that take David seven hours to mow. They are not pristine, velvety paths, but instead, they seem to take nothing away from the wildness of the whole area. One of the animals that have passed through is the Cougar. In fact, several years ago, I saw a video taken on a nearby (or adjacent?) property, where a 'kill' and night-time camera had been set up and a total of six different Cougar individuals were seen!
Even the Dover's home is unique and beautiful. It is completely built of concrete (and glass) - floors, walls, ceilings, roof, deck, and so on. A Hummingbird feeder and regular bird feeders, set up on the patio, attract a variety of birds. We sat on the patio after our walk to eat our packed lunches - and to enjoy a delicious Orange Pound Cake that Frances had made for us, along with refreshing Iced Tea - thank you so much for going to this trouble, Frances! While I was waiting for one of three tiny Calliope (?) Hummingbirds to come back, I was lucky enough to see a little Mountain Chickadee, along with many Pine Siskins. We could also hear a Red-tailed Hawk in the area. Saw a total of 22 bird species this day.
There is just so much I could write about this visit and family. Instead, or for now, I will add several links to more information on the Internet. This was a memorable day for us. Thank you so much, Frances and David, Carolyn and Clair, for being so kind and welcoming us into your home and gardens.
books.google.ca/books?id=Tr36Tq_gadcC&pg=PA290&lp...
www.westernwheel.com/article/20110727/WHE06/307279983/-1/...
David's mother, Mary Dover (her father was A. E. Cross), was "a dynamic and distinguished Calgarian, particularly known for her work with the military during World War II." As well as being an army officer, and an alderman, she was also a preservationist. See the following link.
www.albertachampions.org/champions-mary_dover.htm#.VcY1KP...
ww2.glenbow.org/search/archivesMainResults.aspx?XC=/searc...
glencoe.org/documents/10184/637479/The-History-of-Elbow-P... page 44-45
Family: Ranidae
A male frog remains on top of his female after the frogs leave the water of a duck pond
A breeding pair of Canada Geese mating. Here is a close up of male holding females neck whilst she is almost fully submerged from the weight of the male on her back during copulation.
Photo number 3 in a series of 10
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Notes:-
Unlike the testes of mammals, those of birds vary greatly in size with the seasons. During the breeding season they may be several hundred times larger than they are during the rest of the year and can account for as much as a tenth of the male's body weight. The massive enlargement of the testes is triggered in temperate-zone birds by day length (curiously enough not timed by the amount of light received by the eyes, but by light passing through the skull and stimulating photoreceptors on the brain). As the days lengthen in the spring, increases in hormones produced by the brain initiate the enlargement of the testes. This stimulus occurs weeks in advance of the actual breeding season, so that the male arrives on the breeding grounds with the testes fully developed. A similar sequence results in the enlargement of the female reproductive organs, development of eggs in the ovaries, formation of the brood patch, and so on.
Enlarged testes secrete greater amounts of male hormones that may brighten skin (not feather) colours and stimulate singing and courtship behaviour. During copulation, the male mounts the female from behind. Both sexes hold their tails to the side and turn back the feathers around the cloaca (the common opening of the bird's alimentary canal and excretory and reproductive systems), so that the swollen lips of the male's and female's cloacae can come into contact. In some birds, such as GEESE, ducks, and game birds, there is a grooved, erectile penis inside the male's cloaca. The penis guides the sperm, which have been stored in a nearby sac, into the female. In passerines, there is no penis, and copulation amounts to a brief "cloacal kiss" during which the sperm are transferred.
Once transferred, the sperm remain for a while in storage at the lower end of the oviduct, and then swim to the upper end of that duct to fertilise the egg. A single copulation is usually sufficient to fertilise the eggs laid over a period of about a week. In some birds the sperm remain viable for much longer -- turkeys have been reported to lay fertile eggs more than two months after copulation. Consequently, there is considerable variation among species in the frequency of copulations. If copulation is observed in the field, the habitat, time of day, position used, duration, and any associated behaviour should be recorded.
In most terrestrial species, copulation takes place either on the ground, on a tree limb, or on some other perch. Some aquatic birds (phalaropes, ducks) copulate primarily in the water. Among the most spectacular sights North American bird enthusiasts can see is a mating flight of White-throated Swifts. A group may come swooping down a canyon at high speed, shortly after dawn, with pairs tumbling together as they copulate in midair.
Goshawks may copulate as many as 500 to 600 times per clutch of eggs, while the Eurasian Skylark (which has been introduced onto Vancouver Island) copulates but once. The reason for the difference appears to be related to the chances that other males will manage to copulate with the female in a "monogamous" pair. In birds of prey and many colonial species, males must spend long periods away from females and therefore cannot guard their mates from other males. It is in those species that multiple matings seem to occur, as the male attempts to dilute any other male's semen that the female may have acquired in his absence. (Credit: Web.Stanford.education)
Le canard est un vilain violeur au pénis disproportionné. Patricia Brennan, écologiste de l'Université de Yale aux Etats-Unis s'est penchée sur la sexualité plutôt débridée des canards. Son étude, publiée dans la revue Proceedings of the Royal Society révèle que l'image que l'on a du charmant couple canne/canard se lovant au bord d'un étang n'est qu'un leurre.
Chez tous les animaux, la parade sexuelle tient en deux choses: pour le mâle, répandre son sperme, et donc ses gènes chez le plus grand nombre de femelles; pour la femelle, choisir avec soin son partenaire et obtenir les meilleurs gènes pour ses petits. «C'est donc une perpétuelle bagarre entre mâle et femelle pour assouvir, chacun ses besoins bien spécifiques».
Le canard lui, ne l'entend pas de cette oreille, il agit sans consentement.
"Libellula fulva" copulating alongside the Great Raveley Drain at Woodwalton Fen, Cambridgeshire, UK.
On the shoulder of both sides erotic scenes with men and women copulating in different positions. A vessel, pillows and others objects on the floor.
Floral friezes of lotus buds and palmette on neck and handles. Alternate colored bands over the amphora body.
A Nikosthenic amphora is a type of Attic vase created by the potter Nikosthenes in the late 6th century BC, and aimed specifically for export to Etruria. Characteristic features are the angular body of the amphora and the broad flat handles. The inscription-signature of the artist painted on the higher orange band - ΝΙΚΟΣΘΕΝΕΣ ΕΠΟΙHΣΕΝ - ensures that potter Nikosthenes made this amphora.
CAV / CAVI @ www.beazley.ox.ac.uk
Attic black-figure amphora
Height 29.5 cm.. belly diam. 18.1 cm.
Made in Athens
Attributed to NIkostenes as potter
ca. 530-520 BC.
Athens, Museum of Pavlos and Alexandra Kanellopoulou, No. 2527
© David K. Edwards. The drum-like booming of their enormous copulation shook the forest. Trees rattled, leaves and even branches fell, and the very earth beneath my feet shook. They bred as once the titans bred.
Copulating first brood Adonis Blues photographed at Yoesden Bank in Buckinghamshire. Interestingly the male has part of an antenna tip missing.
A feast of Marbles Whites today at one of my local patch sites in Northwest Leicestershire.
They were everywhere 100's of them,
I don't have any shots of mating so when I saw a pair I concentrated on them ignoring other shots, returning to them when I had enough shots.
Walking up to the lower sunny banks still surrounded by MW's and even more on the sunny bank where I spotted another mating pair so I had the opportunity to take my time already having shots in the can.
I even had time for a 4K video
nguis fragilis is a reptile native to Eurasia. It is also called a deaf adder, a slowworm,[2] a blindworm, or regionally, a long-cripple, to distinguish it from the Peloponnese slowworm. These legless lizards are also sometimes called common slowworms. The "blind" in blindworm refers to the lizard's small eyes, similar to a blindsnake (although the slowworm's eyes are functional).
Slowworms are semifossorial[3] (burrowing) lizards, spending much of their time hiding underneath objects. The skin of slowworms is smooth with scales that do not overlap one another. Like many other lizards, they autotomize, meaning that they have the ability to shed their tails to escape predators. While the tail regrows, it does not reach its original length. In the UK, they are common in gardens, and can be encouraged to enter and help remove pest insects by placing black plastic or a piece of tin on the ground. On warm days, one or more slowworms can often be found underneath these heat collectors. One of the biggest causes of mortality in slowworms in suburban areas is the domestic cat, against which it has no defence.
Rhipiphorid beetle
The males of this family have large antennae used to catch pheromones from female beetles to enable copulation.
Often these beetles are parasites of cockroaches.