Sentence examples for mating arm from inspiring English sources

The male needs to keep his mating arm tip inside the female long enough to transfer at least one spermatophore, and preferably more.

For blanket octopuses, a detached mating arm might also be a logistical necessity.

But the mating arm also comes with extra bells and whistles.

They just give the female their spermatophore-loaded mating arm, and swim away to safety.

"Males have a very long mating arm," says Huffard. "They stretch this arm to twice its resting length when mating".

"The male sits near the female and reaches over to her only with the mating arm," says Huffard.

Some of them can quite literally mate at arm's length.

Which explains why Dr Liam Fox has been looking puzzled ever since his relationship with best-mate, arms lobbyist and serial holiday-maker Adam Werrity was called into question this week.

Once the incipient daughter species become reproductively isolated, their evolution is also becoming decoupled, allowing the accumulation of differences in mating characters, for instance via arms races between the sexes caused by sexual conflict (Parker and Partridge 1998; Gavrilets 2000) or by (separate) runaway processes in one or several populations.

Make an intentional effort to touch your mate's arm, hand, or leg while you dine.

Possibly, species in which males are more likely to be devoured during sex have evolved longer arms, which would make mating a little safer for the males.