Mr Wu pauses only briefly in the first section, adorned with reproductions of antique Chinese paintings of copulating couples.
Instead of copulating directly, the male inserts a pair of sperm-carrying organs called pedipalps into each of his mate's genital openings one at a time.
Mr Schefter describes plenty of it, from the Vanguard rocket which "shivered in high-tech desire" to Gus Grissom's envious comment on copulating May-bugs: "They do the two things I like best in life, fucking and flying .The race for the moon became the ultimate cold-war showdown between alpha males, but it did not begin that way.
AROUND 6am, the squealing of copulating rats—signalling a night-long verminous orgy on the rooftops of Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai gives way to the more cheerful sound of chirruping sparrows.
They use these to pick their sperm up from their genitals and insert it into the female's sexual orifice, rather than copulating directly.
The beaches and hedgerows are thick with foodies scavenging for their dinner.Open-source cultureThe Bremen theatre used to be one of the mainstays of the pornography industry: mighty printing presses whirred day and night in order to slake the world's thirst for pictures of copulating Danes.
The Ugaritic text just alluded to describes El, the head of the pantheon, copulating with two human women.
By engaging in this behaviour, the male sacrifices time he could use to locate a new mate in favour of preventing her from copulating with other males before she can lay her eggs.
Female bonobos are sexually active for more of the time than their chimpanzee counterparts; they bear offspring at roughly five-year intervals and resume copulating with males within a year of giving birth.
Males of the North American ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus) and those of some phasianids, the peacock pheasant (Polyplectron) and argus pheasant being examples, live in isolation, displaying to and copulating with any receptive female.
What emerged was a sui generis work of fiction: unlike much anthropomorphic literature, the animal characters in Watership Down, though able to talk, behave as they would in the wild, fighting, copulating, and defecating.
