copulation

Example Sentences

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This "forced extra-pair copulation," as it's known, is a fairly rare strategy across birds as a whole.

From Salon • Jul. 25, 2021

Further experiments backed the theory that the drug was affecting ovulation through a mechanism involved in copulation and entailing the nervous system, rather than acting directly on the ovaries or other routes.

From The Guardian • Sep. 30, 2019

The difficulty of securing enough calories to fabricate an ootheca may help explain why females of some mantid species famously engage in sexual cannibalism — consuming their mates after, or even during, copulation.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2017

As if that weren’t bad enough, female tarantulas have been known to eat the males if they linger too long after copulation.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2016

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