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unusual facts about mating



Antagonistic Coevolution

Female bed bugs have also evolved physiological by the presence of phagocytic cells in the mesospermalege that ingest sperm after mating.

Artificial insemination

A small number of equine associations in North America accept only horses that have been conceived by "natural cover" or "natural service" – the actual physical mating of a mare to a stallion – the Jockey Club being the most notable of these, as no AI is allowed in Thoroughbred breeding.

AVE Mizar

The prototypes of the Mizar were made by mating the rear portion of a Cessna Skymaster to a Ford Pinto.

Bastrop State Park

Bastrop State Park is home to the largest mating group of the endangered Houston toad on public land.

Boden

Boden's Mate, a mating pattern in chess, discovered by Samuel Boden

Cam follower

Cam followers come in a vast array of different configurations, however the most defining characteristic is how the cam follower mounts to its mating part; stud style cam followers use a stud while the yoke style has a hole through the middle.

Cor, Blimey!

By 1976 the affair is over and a few months later, Sid dies at the age of 62, following a heart attack on stage on the opening night of The Mating Season at the Sunderland Empire Theatre.

Corydalidae

The summer fishfly, Chauliodes pectinicornis, is perhaps the best-known of these in North America; its immense mating swarms in the Upper Mississippi River region fill the air on a few summer nights each year much like mayflies in certain regions of Europe, leaving millions of carcasses to be cleaned up the next day.

David R. Soll

1) the role of mating and switching in the pathogenesis of Candida albicans,

Dog sex

Dog breeding, the practice of mating selected specimens with the intent to maintain or produce specific qualities and characteristics

Española Island

Tourists come to see the Waved Albatrosses (from March to January, almost the entire world population breeds on the island) and the mating dances of Blue-footed Boobies on Española Island.

Hydraulic machinery

Flare fittings, are metal to metal compression seals deformed with a cone nut and pressed into a flare mating.

Illegitimate receiver

On the island of Kauai, females of a species of parasitoid fly, Ormia ochracea, respond to the stridulation mating calls of male field crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus) by locating the crickets and then laying their lethal larvae on them.

Inuka

Like most zoo animals, one of each sex was brought in for mating and conservation purposes.

Jews' Gate Cemetery

The area is a favoured mating and nesting ground of the Barbary Partridge; after their nesting season, the cemetery is cleared and the impression of neglect is removed.

Johann Michael Vansleb

Vansleb is a keen observer, repeatedly trying to get to the bottom of things, yet at other times accepting obscure and spurious explanations without much resistance, for example on the mating rituals of the Nile crocodile.

Kampung Boyan

Though it started out as a tin mine in the 1980s, it drew a lot of attention after the rapid development of the Taman and Kamunting mating of the 1980s and 1990s.

Nape

In domestic cats, the scruff is used when a mother cat transfers her kittens to a new nest or den site (carrying each kitten by gripping its scruff in her teeth), and in mating, when the male cat (tom) grips the female cat's scruff with his teeth to help keep her relatively immobile.

NatA Acetyltransferase

Yeast cells lacking Natp and Ard1p show a reduced sporulation efficiency, failure to enter Pawnee people

The sacrifice was related to the belief that the first human being was a girl, born of the mating of the Morning Star, the male figure of light, and Evening Star, a female figure of darkness, in their creation story.

Seymouria

Over the years, many well preserved fossils have been found in North America and Germany, including the "Tambach Lovers", two individuals of S. sanjuanensis fossilized lying next to each other (though of course it cannot be determined whether they really were a couple killed during mating).

Vocal sac

A vocal sac is a flexible membrane of skin that most male frogs possess, usually to amplify mating or advertisement calls.

Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?

Back at the laboratory, Professor Farnsworth examines a restrained Zoidberg, and determines that it is mating season for Zoidberg's species.

Yeast flocculation

Yeast are capable of forming three aggregates; mating aggregates, for DNA exchange; chain formation; and flocs as a survival strategy in adverse conditions (Calleja, 1987).


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