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  2. Animal sexual behaviour - Wikipedia

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    Here, the male passes the sperm to the female's egg-laying tube, which will soon be fertilised by the sperm. [159] Many animals make plugs of mucus to seal the female's orifice after mating. Normally such plugs are secreted by the male, to block subsequent partners. In spiders the female can assist the process. [160]

  3. Mating - Wikipedia

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    For animals, mating strategies include random mating, disassortative mating, assortative mating, or a mating pool. In some birds, it includes behaviors such as nest-building and feeding offspring. The human practice of mating and artificially inseminating domesticated animals is part of animal husbandry.

  4. Copulation (zoology) - Wikipedia

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    In zoology, copulation is animal sexual behavior in which a male introduces sperm into the female's body, especially directly into her reproductive tract. [1] [2] This is an aspect of mating.

  5. Two Male Humpback Whales Caught 'Mating' for the First Time - AOL

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    This isn't the first time that same-sex behavior has been observed by animals. Monkeys, penguins, and dolphins have been known to engage in same-sex mating too. There's so much more to learn from ...

  6. Category:Mating - Wikipedia

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    The articles in this category are primarily about mating in animals, although a few of them (such as mating in yeast and mating in fungi) are about other types of organisms. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mating .

  7. Female copulatory vocalizations - Wikipedia

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    Sonograms of female copulatory vocalizations of a human female (top), female baboon (middle), and female gibbon (bottom), [19] with time being plotted on the x-axis and the pitch being represented on the y-axis. In non-human primates, copulatory vocalizations begin towards the end of the copulatory act or even after copulation. [2]

  8. Courtship display - Wikipedia

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    A courtship display is a set of display behaviors in which an animal, usually a male, attempts to attract a mate; the mate exercises choice, so sexual selection acts on the display. These behaviors often include ritualized movement (" dances "), vocalizations , mechanical sound production, or displays of beauty, strength, or agonistic ability .

  9. Sexual coercion among animals - Wikipedia

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    Sexual coercion among animals is the use of violence, threats, harassment, and other tactics to help them forcefully copulate. [1] Such behavior has been compared to sexual assault, including rape, among humans. [2] In nature, males and females usually differ in reproductive fitness optima. [3]