mating
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Understanding whether fluorescence influences communication, mating, or predator avoidance could also contribute to conservation efforts.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026
I’m no expert, but I don’t think their mating rituals involve using the New York Times to plead their case or, when that doesn’t work, threatening to move en masse to Tennessee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
During mating, the male collects the eggs using specialized appendages near the base of his head called 'ovigers'.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
Their pleasant mating call, Mr. de Greef writes, sounds like “a distant ferryboat whistle.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Every culture has a myth of the world before creation, and of the creation of the world, often by the mating of the gods or the hatching of a cosmic egg.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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