As a rule, the male possesses a copulating organ which projects externally, while the female presents an invaginated cavity, more or less cylindrical, into which the male organ can penetrate.
In certain Belgian districts which are a prey to alcoholism, one sometimes sees human beings copulating in the streets like animals, or like the drunken Kaffirs in South Africa.
Vanessa, species of, not copulating in captivity, ii.
There is first the more or less sexual pleasure sometimes experienced, especially by young persons, in the sight ofcopulating animals.
When I was about 12 years old, a schoolfellow told me that he had seen his nurse copulating with the groom, and he and I used to haunt the woods in the hope that we might see an amorous couple so engaged, but without success.
MacDonald, and already summarized, the sight of copulating flies is also mentioned among many other causes of sexual excitation.
Afterwards slight differences are seen in the size of the copulating cells; though the smaller ones still have the same shape as the larger ones.
And as the phenomenon of heredity is inseparably connected with the reproductive process, we may further conclude that these two copulating nuclei "convey the characteristics which are transmitted from parents to offspring.
In those protists (unicellular plants and animals) which have the first rudiments of sexual reproduction the two copulating cells are at first quite equal.
The copulation of two coalescing cells, which in these cases often precedes the reproduction, cannot be regarded as a sexual act unless the two copulating plastids differ in size or structure.
He mentions that while in Turkey he studied the subject in its details, and, having found some of these copulating eunuchs, he secured some of the ejaculated fluid and subjected it to a careful examination.
The apparatus for secreting sperm and that for copulatingare sometimes separated.
Disjunction of the secreting apparatus from the copulating apparatus.
The male linguatula is also smaller than the female, he has one testicle but two long copulating organs which simultaneously penetrate the female, ejaculating toward the two ovaries.
Disjunction of the secreting apparatus from the copulating apparatus: spiders, dragon-flies.
I was holding it between the very tips of my fingers, just below the feet of the copulating couple.
Two dogs dogged by cravings and two men suddenly in rapt attention around the copulating beasts.
Animals are frequently shown copulating with various gods or with one another.
The dog is frequently shown as copulatingwith another animal or with a female figure.
Dixon found a copulatingpair in a pool at Capirio.
This same female was seen to copulate with other males, and males were observed copulating with several females.
I found it difficult to distinguish fighting males from a copulating pair.
This sexual affinity must be based on the chemical properties of the plasm of the copulating cells, but it seems to show a good deal of vagueness in its effect.
When a fresh nucleus has been thus formed (by amphimixis) in each of the copulating cells, they again separate.
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