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A Mating Couple at the Duisburg Zoo in Germany. The orbits and nostrils of a pygmy hippo are much less pronounced, an adaptation from spending less time in deep water ( where pronounced orbits and nostrils help the common hippo breathe and see ).
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On 26 April 1976, while on a revival tour of The Mating Season, a 1969 farce by the Irish playwright Sam Cree, James suffered a heart attack on stage at the Sunderland Empire Theatre.
Mating pair of Knapweed Fritillary | Knapweed Fritillaries ( Melitaea phoebe ), male at the left. These butterflies can spend their entire lives living off a patch of Brown Knapweed ( C. jacea ).
* In P G Wodehouse's book " The Mating Season ", PC Dobbs, who happens to be a fervent Agnostic / Atheist, left the County Talent Show at the local hall early because he didn't like the entertainment and went home to " smoke a pipe and read Robert G. Ingersoll ".
Mating continues until the female has had enough, and in at least one species the female has to remove the over-enthusiastic male by force.
Mating can occur at any time of year, and estrus lasts from seven to ten days.
Mating may occur at any time of year ; however, it is more likely to occur when prey is plentiful, which stimulates estrous in females.
Mating usually takes place at night and lasts only a few minutes.
Mating is at its highest at the end of the rainy season between late March to mid-June and births peak during the September – February rains.
Mating King Penguins at Macquarie Island
Mating can occur at any time of the day, during which the male grips the skin of the female's neck.
Mating is thought to occur at or below 1, 000 metres depth.
Mating at Birds of Eden, South Africa
Mating generally occurs on a vertical surface at night, and can last several hours, with the male and female facing in opposite positions, their posterior ends touching.
Mating occurs on land, the male clasping the female at the arms, and the impregnation is internal.
Mating is initiated when up to five males follow closely behind a female and bite at her fins and body, possibly cued by pheromones indicating the female's readiness.
Mating may occur at almost any time of the year.
Mating White Terns at Midway atoll | Midway Atoll
Mating and egg laying have occurred at each institution but most of the eggs have been infertile, a single individual was successfully hatched at the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust in 1997 and in 2000 eight iguanas were hatched.
Wodehouse's novel The Mating Season: Jeeves uses the phrase ' Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came ' to describe Bertie Wooster's arrival at Deverill Hall.
She was a contributing editor at New York magazine, where she wrote the weekly " Mating " column.
Mating occurs either on floating plants or at the margins.
Mating is highest at the end of the wet season and births take place in the dry months.
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Mating normally occurs between December and March, the Southern Hemisphere's summer.
Mating begins between May and August, and the eggs are laid in September.
Mating occurs between May and August, with the eggs laid in September.
In March 1880 he established a monthly trade journal, The Poultry Record, and in 1886, when Baum was 30 years old, his first book was published: The Book of the Hamburgs: A Brief Treatise upon the Mating, Rearing, and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs.
Mating occurs in September and October.
Mating patterns differ by geographical region, but territorial males fight for a harem of two to seven females.
* The Mating Season ( 1951 ), d. Mitchell Leisen
Mating starts with the male and female locating and identifying each other using a mixture of pheromones and vibrational communication.
Mating season is in the summer, but the actual implantation of the embryo ( blastocyst ) in the uterus is stayed until early winter, delaying the development of the fetus.
Mating occurs in the water with the female submerged for most of the encounter, her head emerging periodically to draw breath.
* Mating of animals, e. g. a stallion covers a mare
Mating has rarely been observed in sharks.
Mating behaviour varies between populations located in different areas.
Mating may occur outside the rookeries, between non-territorial males and females, as the latter move to and from the breeding site.
In 2004 and 2006, Turner Classic Movies broadcast The Racket, Two Arabian Knights, and The Mating Call ( 1928 ), the first showing of any of the three films in decades.
Mating begins in May and egg-laying occurs in May through early July.
Mating and egg-laying time is variable depending on the locality and can be January and September, though is usually in March or later.
" Mating systems of closely related species in the family Dipodidae suggest that they may be polygynous.
* The Mating Season dir. Mitchell Leisen
Mating season is in the Southern Hemisphere autumn, from April to May.
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