Sentences with phrase «in copulatory»

«We assume that there may be differences in copulatory organs, in reproductive behaviour or pheromones, or in choosing specific habitats.
Martin Wikelski, a zoologist at the University of Washington, has found that these abused males have evolved a unique reproductive strategy: at the sight of a female, they freeze in copulatory poses and ejaculate.

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The conjugal act, profoundly unitive, isa procreative kind of act, and the gift of the child is to be profoundly linked to the spouses» incarnate gift of self in that conjugal, not merely copulatory, act.
The tiny male blanket octopus, which possesses a relatively huge copulatory organ, spends it entire life drifting on the ocean in search of a female so large he is no bigger than one of her eyes.
In some taxa, males have elaborate copulatory displays to woo females.
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