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This photograph was taken at Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir.
The Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguineum) is a European species of dragonfly of the family Libellulidae. The Ruddy Darter can be found between the months of July and November.
The Ruddy Darter attains a wingspan of up to 6 cm. The head, thorax and abdomen of the male are vivid red, while the female is slightly smaller, and is a golden-yellow colour with black markings. The abdomen widens for the final third of its length and shows a marked pinched section where it joins the thorax. The all-black legs of the Ruddy Darter distinguish it from the otherwise very similar Common Darter (Sympetrum striolatum) and Vagrant Darter (Sympetrum vulgatum), both of which show yellow stripes on their legs.
During mating the male dragonfly grasps the female's head to pull her into the wheel position in order to copulate. Once mated, these dragonflies will remain in tandem. This prevents other males from mating with the female and provides her with some protection against predation and drowning. Mating takes place on the wing, with the coupled pair performing a dipping flight over the water. The female jettisons her fertilised eggs at the water surface by alternating movements of the abdomen.
The open billed storks are sexually monomorphic and sexes are verified by their position during copulation. The aggressive behavior of both the male and female storks continues throughout the breeding season.....
Asian open-billed stork - Anastomus oscitans (Shamukh Khol in Bengal) in the Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary (Kulik Bird Sanctuary)
A resident colonial breeder distributed in tropical Southeast Asia. During monsoon period, the Kulik river enters the sanctuary, which supports a wide variety of food for the open billed stork. The main diet of the bird is apple snail, Pila globosa or other types of snail which grows in large number in the smaller or larger water bodies surrounding Kulik.
Every year large number of this bird species come in the sanctuary only for breeding purpose. According to the field report prepared by the Divisional Forest Officer (DFO), more than 100,000 storks came to Kulik during 2018, forming one of the World’s largest concentrations of this group!
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Lions have very high copulation rates. The female may mate approximately every 15 minutes when she is in heat for three days and nights without sleeping, and sometimes with five different males. This often leads to physical exhaustion of males when only a one or two are involved.
The lion (Panthera leo) is one of the big cats in the genus Panthera and a member of the family Felidae. The commonly used term African lion collectively denotes the several subspecies in Africa.
Lions are the only cats that live in groups, which are called prides. Prides are family units that may include up to three males, a dozen or so females, and their young. All of a pride's lionesses are related, and female cubs typically stay with the group as they age. Young males eventually leave and establish their own prides by taking over a group headed by another male.
Lion Prides and Hunting:
Only male lions boast manes, the impressive fringe of long hair that encircles their heads. Males defend the pride's territory, which may include some 100 square miles (259 square kilometers) of grasslands, scrub, or open woodlands. These intimidating animals mark the area with urine, roar menacingly to warn intruders, and chase off animals that encroach on their turf.
Female lions are the pride's primary hunters. They often work together to prey upon antelopes, zebras, wildebeest, and other large animals of the open grasslands. Many of these animals are faster than lions, so teamwork pays off.
After the hunt, the group effort often degenerates to squabbling over the sharing of the kill, with cubs at the bottom of the pecking order. Young lions do not help to hunt until they are about a year old. Lions will hunt alone if the opportunity presents itself, and they also steal kills from hyenas or wild dogs.
After tongue flicks from the male and a bit of sensuous writhing, the pair lay peacefully tied, for at least half an hour. We left them after that, they might remain tied for a further half hour.
The patterns on the hind wings of the Polyphemus moth are supposed to resemble Great horned owl eyes.
The adults (moth form, as seen in this picture) have a lifespan of just 4 days. The male moth has a large bushy antenna in which it can use to detect the pheremones of a female from up to 3 miles away. The female has a thinner antenna. The female will only copulate with one male but the male will mate with as many females as possible in his short lifespan. These moths also do not have mouths, and therefore cannot eat and must rely on the fat storages in their bodies.
Natural closeup on a copulation of a male and female dark leaf beetle, Arima marginata sitting in the vegetation
A breeding pair of Canada Geese ...(Goose left and Gander right) ..Swishing about together on the surface of the water at the climax of successful copulation.
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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)
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Having always used Adobe Camera Raw in the past to edit my RAW files, I have has some impressive results, however when I bought my D7100 ACR didn't support the files to start with so i was forced to use Nikon's own NX2 software.
I was quite impressed with the way you could sharpen the images without adding excessive noise, so I thought that I would try it on some archive material from last year taken with my D7000 and as you can see the results are quite good.
This happened so fast I was lucky that I had my short lens in my hand otherwise I would have missed this shot with my longer lens. Would have liked a better background but this whole scene last a matter of seconds then it was over. So gotta consider myself lucky to capture and witness what I did. The background is actually a parking lot. Two Burrowing Owl copulating at Brian Piccolo Park, Florida
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Joined up couples are readily located and often allow close examination. They are sexual athletes with copulation lasting from 2 to 6 hours...
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Breeding:
Lions have very high copulation rates. The female may mate approximately every 15 minutes when she is in heat for three days and nights without sleeping, and sometimes with five different males. This often leads to physical exhaustion of males when only a one or two are involved.
The lion (Panthera leo) is one of the big cats in the genus Panthera and a member of the family Felidae. The commonly used term African lion collectively denotes the several subspecies in Africa.
Lions are the only cats that live in groups, which are called prides. Prides are family units that may include up to three males, a dozen or so females, and their young. All of a pride's lionesses are related, and female cubs typically stay with the group as they age. Young males eventually leave and establish their own prides by taking over a group headed by another male.
Lion Prides and Hunting:
Only male lions boast manes, the impressive fringe of long hair that encircles their heads. Males defend the pride's territory, which may include some 100 square miles (259 square kilometers) of grasslands, scrub, or open woodlands. These intimidating animals mark the area with urine, roar menacingly to warn intruders, and chase off animals that encroach on their turf.
Female lions are the pride's primary hunters. They often work together to prey upon antelopes, zebras, wildebeest, and other large animals of the open grasslands. Many of these animals are faster than lions, so teamwork pays off.
After the hunt, the group effort often degenerates to squabbling over the sharing of the kill, with cubs at the bottom of the pecking order. Young lions do not help to hunt until they are about a year old. Lions will hunt alone if the opportunity presents itself, and they also steal kills from hyenas or wild dogs.
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