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Courtship
and Mating
Pictures of Marine Wildlife, Birds, Frogs, and Reptiles |
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Many species
have mate selection rituals that are known as courtship,
and is the process in which the different species
select their partners for reproduction purposes.
Courtship may involve complicated movements, touching,
vocalization, displays of beauty, or fighting prowess.
Typically, the male initiates the courtship and the
female chooses to either mate or reject the male,
based on whether the male has displayed the right
characteristics to perpetuate the species in good
health to the next generation. Mating is the pairing
of opposite sex animals, either for copulation, or
for external fertilization of eggs by sperm.
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Picture of Atlantic
spotted dolphins, Stenella frontalis, mating,
note tooth rakes on head of femall above, Bahamas,
Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 001808 |
Image of black-footed
albatross, Diomedea nigripes, courtship at sunset,
Midway Atoll, NW Hawaiian Islands, Hawaii, Pacific
Picture #: 078579 |
Stock photo of mating
pair of green sea turtles, Chelonia
mydas, Sipadan
Island, Malaysia.
Picture #: 045182 |
Photo of nurse sharks,
Ginglymostoma cirratum, male grasping female prior
to mating, Florida Keys, Florida, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 001266 |
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Picture of Florida manatee
or West Indian manatee, Trichechus
manatus latirostris, mating
herd of one female pursued by six males, Crystal
River, Florida
Picture #: 000820 |
Image of of White's
seahorse or sea horses, Hippocampus whitei,
mating, female transferring eggs to male's brood
pouch, Australia
Picture #: 009046 |
Stock photo of whitetip
reef shark, Triaenodon obesus, with mating
scars or mating bites, Cocos Island, Costa Rica,
East Pacific
Picture #: 006680 |
Photo of South American
sea lions, Otaria flavescens, mating, Patagonia,
Argentina, South Atlantic
Picture #: 002807 |
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Picture of humpback
whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, courtship behavior
- male approaches female while blowing bubbles aggressively,
Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 006309 |
Image of horseshoe crabs,
Limulus polyphemus, mating with the larger
female at the bottom, Florida Bay, Everglades National
Park, Florida, Gulf of Mexico
Picture #: 006016 |
Stock photo of a gentoo
penguin, Pygoscelis papua, courtship braying,
West Falkland, Falkland Islands, sub Antarctic
Atlantic
Picture #: 009404 |
Photo of manta rays,
Manta birostris, swimming over reef in
courtship behavior, West Maui, Hawaii, Pacific
Ocean
Picture #: 011453 |
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Picture of loggerhead
sea turtle, Caretta caretta, front flipper, showing
claw which male uses to hold female during mating,
Bahamas, Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 003663 |
Image of male whitetip
reef shark, Triaenodon obesus, biting female
during courtship, Cocos Island, Costa Rica, East
Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 001494 |
Stock photo of market
squid, Loligo opalescens, mating, California,
East Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 011279 |
Photo of green sea turtles,
Chelonia mydas, mating with male on top,
Sipadan Island, Borneo, Malaysia, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 001938 |
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Picture of Atlantic
spotted dolphins, Stenella frontalis, mating, Bahamas,
Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 010873 |
Image of northern elephant
seals, Mirounga angustirostris, mating pair,
Big Sur Coast, California, East Pacific
Picture #: 011612 |
Stock photo of mating
day octopi, Octopus cyanea, male on the
left passes sperm packets down specialized third
arm, hectoctylus, to female, Kona, Hawaii, Pacific
Ocean
Picture #: 008730 |
Photo of bat ray, Myliobatis
californica, courtship in California Channel
Islands
Picture #: 021153 |
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