copulation

How To Use copulation In A Sentence

• Also, males cannot force females to copulate as copulation is only possible when the female assumes a horizontal body posture.
• Copulations in which the male forcefully mounted the female in the absence of female solicitation were regarded as forced.
• Copulations were observed on three occasions, all in the immediate vicinity of nests.
• This permits the male to mount her back and attempt copulation by curling his abdomen to clasp her genitalia.
• These are probably living fetuses, produced by the father, of different degrees of maturity, to be detruded at different periods of time, like the unimpregnated eggs of various sizes, which are found in poultry; and as they are produced without any known copulation, contribute to evince, that the living embryon in other orders of animals is formed by the male-parent, and not by the mother, as one parent has the power to produce it. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
• In Drosophila species, the male accessory gland secretes seminal fluids transferred to the female during copulation.
• Females begin to cannibalize males during the first copulation, but males usually survive and achieve a second copulation following a second period of courtship.
• According to law you've got to disclose such a fact prior to copulation.
• Due to a purely biological function, a tigress in oestrus goes through an intensive mating cycle that requires, as research indicates, copulation every 15 minutes resulting in 50 or 60 encounters over a couple of days.
• Norwegian scientists find that some 60 percent of bluethroat females indulged in "extra-pair copulations. Science Notes