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...in mutual congress.
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Love amongst the flowers.
Surrounded by the fallen stars
Of Yellow Loosestrife, on our path,
Two snails lay in motionless copulation,
In mutual lingering bliss.
Hermes and Aphrodite both!
How different might our attitudes be
If people were like this.
No sexist jokes, no his and hers,
No chauvinists, nor feminists,
No Mr, Mrs, Ms or Miss,
No putting down, nor snide remarks,
No women drivers, no pornography,
No women’s work, nor male preserves,
No Page Three girls, no Chippendales,
No rape, perhaps, and no misogynists.
But having male and female
In one body, would lead
To double joys, and double trials.
Imagine double impotence,
Or twice ‘lay-back-and-think-of-England’.
Perhaps the possibility
Of double, double ecstasy
Would not be worth the added trouble.
For there would be no mystery,
No discovery, no other.
Better left maybe, to snails,
Those lesser forms with lesser minds,
Still in union amongst the flowers.
(Published in Earth Love 22, 2006)
They took realy their time exchanging what ever needs exchanging.
And if you look at the color of the wings, that the upper side is very blue of this morpho peleides
Forced copulation by mallard ducks. askanaturalist.com/why-are-these-mallard-males-beating-up...
Do not use ducks as a guide to human behavior. Just don't!
Saturday, March 10 2018, I visited Reid Park Zoo for the last week that the red pandas were there and of course all the other animals.
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The most famous Wat and #1 attraction in Nan. Here is the wikipedia link for information to the way and its famous murals.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Phumin
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The most famous mural is "The Whisper." But there is a story about Nan and its people as you move around the room. It took over 20 years to paint them. Also, the murals detect the first reference to ga-toi-ey, or Kathoey/ladyboy/transgener, in Thai society. Anger is expressed by the copulating monkeys. And so much more. It is easy to spend a great deal of time in this relatively small Wat if reading the history and meaning of the murals as you go around the room.
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.
Bronze oil lamp of Leda copulating with a swan, a head of the swan with a serpent like neck serves as the handle. To seduce the maiden Leda, Zeus transformed himself into a swan in order to escape the watchful eyes of his wife Hera. Traces of green patina. 1700's AD (6 ½" x 3 ½").
Two Ditch Fencing Crayfish (Faxonella clypeata) copulate shamelessly. The male is at the top left and his bright white gonopods (modified pleopod legs) can clearly be seen as he aligns them for insertion into the female's annulis ventralis. Each species of crayfish has uniquely shaped gonopods and for many species this is the only consistent basis for their identification.
When ready to copulate, the need to do so for a toad is so overwhelming, that it will climb anything, moving or not. In this case it mates with a fire salamander.
On our first evening in the Okavango Delta, we witnessed the following seduction attempt by an assertive lioness.
"When the female is in season, she demonstrates her readiness by head rubbing and rolling onto her back. When she is ready, she will present her hindquarters to the male. The act of copulation is extremely quick, lasting less than a minute in most cases. During the actual act, the male lion mounts the female lion and grasps her neck with his powerful jaws. The act is repeated as often as physically possible over the approximately four days that the female continues to be in heat. This can amount to hundreds of individual acts of copulation. Despite all the repetition, mating is often unsuccessful, even though lions are able to induce ovulation rather than relying on an estrous cycle. The reasons for this lack of success are not well known."
"The gestation period lasts about three and a half months, and litters range from two to six cubs. Cubs are utterly helpless at birth, and take a full two years to reach maturity. As a result, female lions only give birth about every two to three years. Lionesses within a pride often synchronize their ovulation in order to gestate and give birth around the same time. The sad fact is that only about 1 in 4 cubs will survive to adulthood."
(Source: www.actforlibraries.org/mating-habits-of-african-lions/)
I found this lovely couple of longhorn beetles on Sunday, copulating in the most romantic place in the world, an enormous flower-bed, the umbel of a wild carrot (Daucus carota). I don't think they knew that seeds of this plant have long been used as a form of birth control (according to wikipedia).
I photographed them with my MP-E lens at 1:1, because they were quite big (photo is uncropped): almost 2cm long, without the antennae. They were a difficult subject, dark bodies on white flowers, but no detail was lost, thanks to the dynamic range of the 5D's sensor :)
When I showed this image to my son, I was telling him that they play with each other. They do, right?
We spent a lovely afternoon at my parent's place today, the kids and me. They live in the countryside, and have a little pond right next to their house. This was shot right there, while the kids were marveling at the cows.
The female was resting on the bank, when the male appeared. She left the bank and swam towards the male, who was bobbing his head up and down. He swam beside her, and she stopped, and he mounted by climbing on behind. He grabbed the feathers at the back of her head, and at one point she was entirely submerged. After probably 20 seconds, it was done, and he swam away, and she followed him behind a patch of reeds.
Family: Lycaenidae
Blues in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. This pair performed the dance in the Botanic Gardens, circling a thistle flower whilst interlocked.
Donner Party Camp Trail, Highway 89 / Nevada County, California
Credit has to be given to Leslie Flint as she told me 2 years ago that she had seen and photographed this species along the 1/3 mile trail. There are 2 locations along this trail that have a very small stream that bisects the trail. I found these damsels at the second small stream which is just south of the Donner Party campsite near a large dead tree and I was surprised at how small these damsels are and the difference in flight which is short and rapid. I don't believe I've ever been able to capture a mating pair of damselflies or even dragonflies on my first sighting until now.
According to Rutowski and Schaefer in their research report "Courtship Behavior of the Gulf Fritillary" published in the Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society in 1984, "Gulf Fritillary copulation occurs with the adults facing opposite directions and their abdomens touching. The male will grasp the female's abdomen with a pincer like organ called a clasper, and then insert his aedeagus (analog of a penis) into the female's reproductive tract to gradually pass his sperm (or spermatophore) to her."
Addition not only to the lifelist, but to the copulation list! 3x in the 20 min or so that we watched. For much of the time the female was perched and would call to the male as he returned from hunting sorties with a treat for her. Sometimes after he fed her they would mate.
Geotagged, as this location has been widely publicized, and the birds (and Mississippi Kites in general) don't seem to mind their admirers -- in fact, they chose to nest right next to the visitor center parking lot.
Take me to the corner where I shall stand tall lit with elegance. Approach me with fine taste and luscious thirst for a forbidden quench. Wrap your two fingers around my stem and sip slowly with heavy expectations. I shall caress your soul with vineyard presses and infinite love of catered seduction.
According to Rutowski and Schaefer in their research report "Courtship Behavior of the Gulf Fritillary" published in the Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society in 1984, "Gulf Fritillary copulation occurs with the adults facing opposite directions and their abdomens touching. The male will grasp the female's abdomen with a pincer like organ called a clasper, and then insert his aedeagus (analog of a penis) into the female's reproductive tract to gradually pass his sperm (or spermatophore) to her."
Schachbrettfalter. Seen in Cospeda, germany. Two copulating Cryptocephalus beetles on a thistle in the front.
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.
Came across this pair of ladybugs and managed to observed the entire "porno" scene lol~
The male at the back was constantly humping the female from time to time, and the process took quite some time.
The female is capable of moving even when the male is on top of her.
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