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At a recent Skutr happening at Fabrika, a factory turned 200-seat stage in the up-and-coming Holesovice district, the actors moved freely among the audience, in one instance pretending to find electric sex toys in people's pockets before turning them into musical instruments; in another, letting the audience's reaction set the pace of copulation between a butterfly and a fly.
Copulation between pairs seems to be closely related to food transfers, with this possibly serving as a trigger for intercourse.
For 17 males that copulated at least once and masturbated during female oestrus, I calculated the percent of his masturbations that occurred before the first copulation, between copulations, and after the last copulation.
The Mann–Whitney U-test was used to determine the significance of differences in percent circling and percent copulation between the crosses.
We used a Wilcoxon rank sum test to determine if there were differences in the latency to copulation between conspecific and heterospecific crosses.
Crosses between different phylotypes have shown a gradient in mate recognition and copulation between members of the species complex [ 17, 22].
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Males build bowers between June and September, and most copulations occur between September and December (Frith et al. 1996; Frith and Frith 2004).
Italian researchers Alfonso Troisi and Monica Carosi spent 238 hours watching Japanese macaques, and witnessed 240 individual copulations between males and females.
A similarly high proportion of failed copulations has been reported in other insects that transfer sperm via spermatophores; for example, in a noctuid moth species 20% of copulations between virgins failed to transfer any sperm to the female's storage organs [42].
To quantify different parameters of mating, we observed, up to 5 min, copulations between males and paralyzed unc-64 e240) unc-64 e240tes.
The biasing of fertilization can also occur during intraspecific multiple matings, for example, in copulations between different races of alpine grasshopper, in which a higher proportion of offspring from virgin females were sired by males from the same race as the focal female (Podisma pedestris: Hewitt et al. 1989).
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