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The paired male initially ensured that his female spent little time alone at the nest, and accompanied her on flights, but the mate-guarding slackened after egg laying began, so the youngest nestling was the most likely to have a different father.
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The paired Müllerian glands inside the male cloaca secrete a fluid which resembles that produced by mammalian prostate glands and which may transport and nourish the sperm.
Sugg goes on to note that female characters who are paired with this character usually end up socially ostracised, or worse-in an inverted ending to the male hero-story.
Among modern English speakers, solar deities are popularly thought of as male counterparts of the lunar deity ( usually female ); however, sun goddesses are found on every continent ( e. g. Amaterasu in Japanese belief ) paired with male lunar deities.
Sir James George Frazer in The Golden Bough noted the phallic nature of the spear and suggested that in the Arthurian Legends the spear or lance functioned as a symbol of male fertility, paired with the Grail ( as a symbol of female fertility ).
An early story proposal paired Steed and Gale with a male and female duo of American agents, to make the movie appeal to the American market.
These displays include paired soaring over a nesting territory, the male chasing the female in a diagonal dive, and mutual talon presentation, where the male presents his talons to the female's back and she flips over in mid-air to present her own talons.
Later, as a goddess in other traditions of the Egyptian pantheon, where most goddesses were paired with a male aspect, her masculine counterpart was Thoth and their attributes are the same.
A longer-staying unusual visitor was " Elsie " the Lesser Crested Tern, who visited the Farnes every summer from 1984 to 1997 ; during that period, she ( paired with a male Sandwich Tern ) raised several hybrid chicks, and attracted several thousand birders keen to see this species in Britain.
Even through the transition to a paired pantheon of male deities matched or " married " to each goddess and during the male-deity-dominated pantheon that arose much later, the mother goddesses persisted into historical times ( such as Hathor and Isis ).
Having paired the pair continue to build the nest in almost all species, although in the Little Bittern and Least Bittern only the male works on the nest.
Uniquely among insects, mayflies possess paired genitalia, with the male having two penises and the female two gonopores.
In modern times, however, such a distinction of gender is often no longer made and the Feng and Huang are blurred into a single feminine entity so that the bird can be paired with the Chinese dragon, which has male connotations.
Like most gamelan instruments, kendang are paired: the larger, lead part female, wadon, and the other male, lanang.
In polygynous systems where the number of females paired with each male is low, the male will often stay with one female to help rear the young, while the other females rear their young on their own.
The paired mesonephric ducts in the male, in contrast, go on to form the paired epididymis, ductus deferens, ejaculatory duct and seminal vesicle.
On March 2, 2010, Maris and a new male, Beethoven, were returned to the Georgia Aquarium for the public to enjoy while Natasha was paired with a potential mate and remains in San Antonio.
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CBS initially paired Summerall with Chris Schenkel on Giants games ; three years later he shifted to working with Jim Gibbons on Washington Redskins games.
These 48 seven-minute short cartoons were paired with Grape Ape and Mumbly cartoons, to create The Tom and Jerry / Grape Ape Show, The Tom and Jerry / Grape Ape / Mumbly Show, and The Tom and Jerry / Mumbly Show, all of which initially ran on ABC Saturday Morning between September 6, 1975 and September 3, 1977.
The character of Josh was initially introduced as a bad boy of sorts and paired with several female leads.
The two were certainly hung together for many years in Spain when in the collection of Gaspar Méndez de Haro, 7th Marquis of Carpio ( 1629 – 87 ); at what point they were initially paired is uncertain.
Speed is initially paired with Murdoch, though their partnership is strained when Speed must stop Murdoch from raping an unconscious female college student who has overdosed on Seconal.
Haber was initially paired with female co-host Erin Carman on a program entitled " Haber & Erin in the Morning ".
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At the end of the anime, Mr. Cat is shown as a normal cat again and paired up with a female cat, walking with their kittens.
The only female officer in the history of the show, Herzog is paired with Hoffmann ( Kunz is almost entirely desk-bound in this incarnation of the series ), and sexual tension constantly results.
In the Season 4 episode " Raphael Meets His Match ", Raphael was paired off with a mysterious mutant female named Mona Lisa, who might have been considered as a potential girlfriend for Raphael.
The unison calls, duets between paired males and female however are more distinctive with marked differences across pairs.
He is paired with female DC Crockett in several scenes ( she eventually disappears from the series ).
In an archaic Roman prayer, Maia appears as an attribute of Vulcan, in an invocational list of male deities paired with female abstractions representing some aspect of their functionality.
By definition, a hermaphroditic connector includes mating surfaces having simultaneous male and female aspects, involving complementary paired identical parts each containing both protrusions and indentations.
He teamed with female vocalist Helen Forrest for many hit duets during World War Two, including " Together ," " I'll Buy That Dream ," and " Long Ago and far Away "; he sang with Judy Garland on two Decca recordings of songs from his film " The Shocking Miss Pilgrim " with Betty Grable ; and he paired repeatedly with the very famous Andrews Sisters ( Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne ) on a dozen or so Decca collaborations, including the Billboard hit " Teresa ," " Great Day ," " My Sin ," and a masterful 1952 rendering of the dramatic ballad " Here in My Heart ," backed by the sisters and Nelson Riddle's lush strings.
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