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Plutôt inusité! Pas facile de prendre en photo un seul de ce spécimen, car il bouge constamment. L'idéale c'est d'attendre l'accouplement, ils ne bougent pas.
Rather unusual! Not easy to photograph one of the specimen, as it moves constantly. The ideal is to wait for mating, they do not move.
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There are over three hundred distinct breeds of goat.
Children's Zoo / Barnyard animals
Morelia zoo
Morelia, Mexico
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Showing production of the egg capsule - ootheca. The female is the larger of the two at top of image. Collected on the Mount Hay walk on the rock platform approaching the summit of Butterbox hill. Usually it's good for lizards basking in the sun or scuttling under eroded rock shelves and hunting insects, but this time it was a special moment for these two beautiful Bush Cockroaches.
A pair of Golden Sun Moths enjoy their golden moment in the sun.
It was a day of hot sex. There were copulating couples all round in the scruffy patch of grass these moths were born and raised in. As adults they don't eat or drink at all. So it's a short life of fun and socialising for a couple of days during which the female lays 100 or so eggs at the base of some wallaby grass.
...and then they die. Not a bad punchline I suppose after a couple of years spent feeding underground.
These are listed as a Critically Endangered species yet bizarrely can be found on the footpaths in Canberra suburbs at the moment.
The reason for their critical status is that they depend on wallaby grasses for their existence. We humans have reduced the area of temperate grasslands to about 1% of pre-white settlement levels.
Given that wallaby grasses don't occur in all temperate grasslands, and given the GSM only inhabits grasslands between 480m and 800m elevations in NSW, there's bugger all habitat left for them and what there is is highly fragmented. It's a quirk of fate that Canberra is in the middle of the altitude range, and in the middle of what used to be temperate grasslands with plenty of wallaby grasses. So remnant patches of suitable habitat remain and some of these appear to be on footpaths and in tiny rather unkempt bush parks in Canberra.
From my observations there's nothing wrong with their fertility, I saw 3 mating pairs in my hour at the locations found by Suzi. Thanks Suzi for being observant enough to notice them, and for the directions!
More info:
www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies...
Here you can see the cymbium of the male's pedipalp (the black thing that looks like it's sticking out of the female's abdomen) with the swolen embolus (the orange jelly sack inflated around the right-side of the cymbium) pumping sperm into the female's gonopore. Full explanation here
This Female American Avocet in breeding plumage is trying to initiate copulation with a nearby male through a courtship display called a Solicitation Posture and in it she holds her neck extended far out and low. With outstretched wings in the upward position she would often have her head touching the water surface.
(Recurvirostra americana)
Image - Copyright 2024 Alan Vernon
Crop of this photo.
You can see the cymbium of the male's pedipalp (the black thing that looks like it's sticking out of the female's abdomen) with the swolen embolus (the orange jelly sack inflated around the right-side of the cymbium) pumping sperm into the female's gonopore. Full explanation here
This orchid is interesting in that it is pollinated by pseudo-copulation, or Pouyannian mimicry. The flower, shown here underneath the plant's leaf, mimics the female pollinator, not in appearance, but mainly in chemical signal. The pollinator, most likely a crane fly or other insect, is attracted to the flower by the secretion of pheromones, and attempts to mate with the orchid thinking that it is in fact a female of its own species. The pollinator then transfers pollen to other flowers on subsequent visits.
leucistic female Eurasian jay Garrulus glandarius just before copulation with a normal coloured male near Velike Lašče in northern Dinaric Mts Slovenia
交接中, During copulation,
ワモンダコ, Big Blue Octopus, Octopus cyanea,
ガンビー, GANBEE Reef,
丸根ヶ浜, MARUNEGAHAMA Beach, Beach MARUNE,
式根島, SHIKINEJIMA Island,
190504
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Bugs in love. Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Taken with my 1970's-era 55mm Nikon Micro-Nikkor lens.
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Copy of the original found in Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum
Naples, Mann
Pan was a satyr - half man and half goat woodland god. In this sculpture, he and the goat exchange a tender gaze, but it is not depicting bestiality. Rather, it explores the nature of Roman myth. The original of this sculpture has been shocking visitors sinc it was first excavated from the villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, near Pompeii, in 1752. In the Naples Museum, it was kept with other erotic antiquities in the Gabinetto segreto (secret cabinet); that is, a special room with restricted access.
Copulating Rock-rose Pot Beetle (Cryptocephalus primarius), Gloucestershire, UK. June. Available for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons license. For commercial use, please contact copyright holder.
C. Alex Hyde
(Anas platyrhynchos) Belmont Pond, Kelowna, BC.
From the previously cited website, again:
“Forced copulation is a regular feature of sexual activity among ducks [especially Mallards]. In the phenomenon known as "rape flight," several Mallards will aggressively peck at a female duck until she submits to sex (or dies). There's reason to believe that female ducks very much do NOT enjoy this; the duck vagina has developed in a "rape-specific way" which allows female ducks to prevent pregnancy from this forced sexual contact*. But can we compare this animal behavior to the human conception of rape? Nagoski argues that there's no such thing as "duck rape" for the same reason that meat isn't murder—animals are incapable of consenting (or not consenting) to sex....”
By the way, my naturalist's hat is now crushed beyond all recognition....
Arufura File Snakes (copulating) at Howard Springs Park east of Darwin, Australia, 110809. Acrochordus arafurae. Squamata: Serpentes: Acrochordidae.
A photographic moment following an attempted copulation between this pair. The female (lower bird) apparently rejected the attempt and is seen here flying off, followed by the male.
This shot has needs to be seen large.
I have been asked for these a number of times, so here is one picture of a pair "in the act". They are majestic animals, and a lot of joy to be with. Now these guys grow fast, much quicker than most people think!
Andean Anole, Anolis gemmosus, copulating pair.
Mindo, west slope of Andes, Ecuador
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