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A sad man's bid to get high viewing figures for one of his photos (beginning to work - hooray, what a great photographer I must be!). Two lizards going at it hammer and tongs in the Sri Lankan heat.
Liuzhou, Guangxi, China/中国广西柳州
The insects were caught by the mantis shortly after the start of copulation.
Pyrrhocoris apterus
appelé aussi « suisse », « cordonnier », « soldat », « masque-nègres » ou encore « diable cherche-midi »
Coastal Peacock Spider, Saitis speciosus (likely rev. Maratus speciosus). Male and female.
Not a word I would normally exclaim from the rooftops LOL, but this is the first time in four years studying this delightful little species that I've witnessed copulation! Photo is unashamedly uncropped as I like the way the barrier of leaves stopping me getting my camera any closer nicely frames the little boudoir in which they are performing their consummation. ;-)
See below for more pics, including a more front-on angle.
I went out today and lordy(!) the number of courtship displays I saw! There were so many males on the prowl it was unbelievable. Every female had at least two male hangers-on trying to woo her with their jiggly little dances. This was the first time in fact that I've witnessed males actively fighting over females, chasing each other off sometimes mid-display. On the whole, the females weren't interested and quite often they would chase off the displaying male themselves
I had been watching one large (though didn't appear to be gravid) female who was up the top of a saltbush being courted by three males but she seemed quite irritated by them and chased each of them off in succession. So my attention turned to quite a small, young female who was further down the bush in case she was to be more receptive. But her response to the first male who came along was to almost instantly run away from him (I got some video of that which I might upload at some stage, it's only a few seconds) and she seemed more interested in food, catching a large fly as big as she was a few moments later. In the meantime I had lost track of the largest of the three males I had seen earlier, so I went looking for him. I was completely taken aback when I looked back in to the small "bower" of the saltbush crown to see him mounting the large female. I was gobsmacked. Took me a few moments to ready my camera and take some photos.
The bower was fairly well enclosed and I couldn't get my camera in very close, but I guess that's exactly the sort of place a female would want to mate, where it is a bit secluded and protected. And of course may very well account for why I haven't seen copulation before. Unfortunately, as my attention had been elsewhere, I hadn't witnessed any of the courtship display itself, so the successful male-female response shall have to continue to remain a mystery for the timebeing.
The female is upright on her legs, but her abdomen has been twisted around almost 180 degrees, allowing the male access to her epigyne where he inserts his pedipalp(s) to transfer sperm. From first coming upon them, they stayed together as shown, unmoving, for the entirety of three minutes. The only motion I detected was the male minutely flicked his abdomen twice and there was a brief bout of pedipalp action that I couldn't make out... you have to understand, they are less than 1mm in size!
After mating was over, the male gingerly backed off the female and walked away, unrushed. The female righted her abdomen and just stayed on the spot for a few seconds, then turned around and looked about a bit and generally returned to normal activity.
South Cottesloe Beach, August 2010.
Sadigh Gallery. ASIAN. Carved dark green jade erotica piece: a couple copulating, the male and female embracing in seated position. Very animated and finely detailed. www.sadighgallery.com
A breeding pair of Canada Geese ...Goose left and Gander right ...Clicking bills and bonding together after successfully copulating.
Photo number 7 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)
Other Common Names
Daddy-Long-Legs (UK)
Explanation of Names
from Latin tipula 'water spider'(1)
"Crane fly" refers to a semblance with long-legged birds
Cornelis de Heem, Leiden 1631 - Antwerpen 1695
Prunkstillleben mit kopulierenden Spatzen / Sumptuous still life with copulating sparrows (1657)
Städel, Frankfurt
Cornelis de Heem entstammte einer bekannten und traditionsreichen Künstlerfamilie, die auf Stillleben mit opulenten Arrangements von Blumen, Früchten und Büchern spezialisiert war. Wie schon sein Vater Jan Davidsz. de Heem war auch Cornelis einer der führenden Stilllebenmaler seiner Zeit.
This shot shows the diagnostic large black spotting along the ventral midline. Female is 10 mm long. Found on raspberry (wineberry, Rubus phoenicolasius) fruit, which strongly suggests to me that these are the little so-and-sos (or at least among them) who sprinkle their unspeakably nasty fairy dust on a raspberry every so often.
"A Naked Couple
Uruk/Warka (Iraq), 2000-1600 BC; Clay; Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum SMB PK, Inv. No VA 6214
This clay plaque shows a coule having sexual intercourse. With the help of a straw the woman is consuming an intoxicating drink from a jar. Images like these are often interpreted as connected to scenes from the cult of the goddess of love Inanna/Ishtar. Depicted might also be a scene from a brothel."
Colour variations within a spawn-mass may be due to combination of egg-strings from several individuals.
Copulation lasts several hours or even days. Egg string is extruded intermittently in sections (Eales, 1921), each section curls, resulting in tangled mass. Colour changes with time, so sections of string issued at different times by a single individual may have different shades from each other with abrupt colour changes corresponding to pauses in laying. The cream section right-of-centre is thinner than other sections, suggesting that it is the most recently laid with least time to absorb water to expand.
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Sadigh Gallery. ASIAN. Carved light green-reddish brown jade erotica piece: a couple copulating, female kneeling forward, the male behind her, the female holding her breasts. Very animated and finely detailed. www.sadighgallery.com
Sadigh Gallery. ASIAN. Carved solid variegated light jade erotica piece: a couple copulating, phallus visible. Earth patina. www.sadighgallery.com
© David K. Edwards. It all begins with love. Here are two monarch butterfulies (Danaus plexippus) locked in the delights of coitus that began in a crowded treetop above. In the wonderful process, she becomes pregnant. Soon she will deliver eggs.
Sadigh Gallery. ASIAN. Carved light variegated red jade phallus, a symbol of fertility, the back with a carved seated bearded man with headdress resting his chin to the back . www.sadighgallery.com
Broad-striped Forceptail (Aphylla angustifolia) - pair in copula with female feeding on Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
TEXAS: Williamson Co.
Rattan Creek Park
Austin
2-August-2015
J.C. Abbott & K.K. Abbott
"There are so many better words in the English language to describe how you feel without swearing", my mother used to say, or something very much like that.
And she was right. Mothers always are, aren't they?
And I do love words. Words like pulchritude, anthropomorphism, omniscient, aubergine, courgette, perineum, expectorate, micturate, masticate, and copulate...
But I do also swear like a trooper at times.
I'm not sure how or why I got in the habit. When I was living at home my parents always told us off for bad language, and not in a hypocritical "it's okay for me to say that word, but you mustn't" way: I didn't hear my dad swear until I was about fifteen and that was only 'dickhead'. I think the first time I heard him say anything harsher was a year or so later when he dropped a case of beer on his foot whilst filling the restaurant fridges.
Their language is still only occasionally "blue" now that my brothers and I no longer have sensitive ears.
I still try to restrain my language in front of them, usually slipping into expletives unconsciously in anger or when drunk, and I do restrain my "potty mouth" in respectable company.
Mad River Fish Hatchery, Arcata CA 4/5/13
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This book is in Russian. Книга "Соитие слов", автор Сергей Степанов, поэт.
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"Соитие слов" – полифоничная и гармоничная книга Сергея Степанова. Чувственные и пронзительные метафоры демонстрируют магическое влияние слова. Поэтика Сергея Степанова балансирует на лезвии речевой фразы – ее он чувствует, как мало кто другой. Книга Сергея Степанова "Соитие слов": вот так поэзия!
Категория: Книга. Автор: Сергей Степанов, поэт. Название: Соитие слов / The Copulation of Words by Sergey Stepanov, Russian poet. ISBN 9780463905388, ISBN 9781794796003, ISBN 0463905385. Страниц: 146. Жанр: Стихотворения, Стихи, Поэзия. Издатель: Сергей Степанов, все права защищены. Год издания: 2019. Язык: Русский. Страна: США.
"The Copulation of Words" by Sergey Stepanov, Russian poet.
Category: Book. Title: The Copulation of Words. Author: Sergey Stepanov. Publisher: Sergey Stepanov. ISBN 9780463905388, ISBN 9781794796003, ISBN 0463905385. Printed in the USA: 2019.
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И выйдет что из-под пера ль…
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