copulation
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Female black widow spiders eat males following copulation.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Snails also exhibit no outward gender identity until the moment of copulation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
This "forced extra-pair copulation," as it's known, is a fairly rare strategy across birds as a whole.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2021
Competition for females is tough among these polygynous birds, and those who settle down in a single spot had little chance of copulation.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2017
In the laboratory, male gypsy moths have attempted copulation with chips of wood, vermiculite, and other small, inanimate objects, so long as they were suitably impregnated with gyplure.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
