Breeding Collection (page 90)

Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis) adult pair, breeding plumage, swimming in arctic lake, Varanger, Norway, june

Gadwall (Anas strepera) adult males and female, in nuptial flight, Norfolk, England

Mallard Duck (Anas platyrhynchos) adult pair, mating in water, Worcestershire, England, march

Great Northern Diver (Gavia immer) adult, summer plumage, calling, swimming on lake, North Michigan, U. S. A. june
Great Northern Diver (Gavia immer) adult, summer plumage, calling, swimming on lake, North Michigan, U.S.A. june

Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica) adult pair, in breeding plumage, swimming on lake, Langvattnet Lake, Malingsbo-Kloten Nature Reserve, Bergslagen, Central Sweden, august

Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica) adult, summer plumage, in flight, Finland, june

Little Auk (Alle alle) three adults, summer plumage, quarreling on rock at breeding colony, Spitzbergen, Svalbard, july

Little Auk (Alle alle) adult male, summer plumage, with stone in beak as offering to female in breeding colony, Spitzbergen, Svalbard, july

Mating pharaoh cuttlefish
Pharaoh cuttlefish (Sepia pharaonis) mating. The male at centre is protecting the egg-laying female (below) from a rival male (above). The dark stripes and raised arms are threat displays

Giant cuttlefish mating
Giant cuttlefish (Sepia apama) mating. During copulations the male places his spermatophore (a capsule containing sperm cells) in a pouch under the females mouth

Giant cuttlefish fighting
Giant cuttlefish (Sepia apama) males fighting during the breeding season. This cuttlefish inhabits coastal waters around southern Australia

Giant cuttlefish in display combat
Giant cuttlefish (Sepia apama) in display combat over a female (foreground). The giant cuttlefish is native to southern Australia and it is the worlds largest cuttlefish species

Giant cuttlefish males fighting
Giant cuttlefish (Sepia apama) males fighting. The giant cuttlefish is native to southern Australia and it is the worlds largest cuttlefish species

Broadclub cuttlefish laying eggs
Female broadclub cuttlefish (Sepia latimanus) laying eggs in fire coral. Photographed in Indonesia

Emperor penguins and chicks
Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) with their three-month-old chicks (grey). The adults feed them by regurgitating fish. These are the only penguins to breed during the Antarctic winter

Mating common frogs (Rana temporaria). Two males compete for one female, both by grasping onto her, a process called amplexus. The male on her back is likely to be successful

Emperor penguin rookery
Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) rookery on sea ice. The grey-feathered chicks are three months old. The adults feed them by regurgitating fish

Cape gannet courtship ritual

Emperor penguin chicks huddling
Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) chicks huddling for warmth in the Antarctic spring. These grey-feathered chicks are about one month old. The adults feed them by regurgitating fish

Doves at a dove cote

Mating tortoises (family Testudinae). Photographed in Madagascar

Jamess flamingos (Phoenicopterus jamesi) feeding by Laguna Colorada (the Coloured Lake), Bolivia, at sunset. Flamingos have exceptionally long legs and long, flexible necks

Emperor penguins with chick
Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) pair with their three-month-old chick. The adults feed the chicks by regurgitating fish

Greater double collared sunbird feeding
Greater double collared sunbird (Nectarinia afra) feeding on nectar from an aloe flower (Aloe sp.). This male is showing colourful breeding plumage

Emperor penguins huddling
Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) males huddling for warmth. This picture was taken in April when the temperature was -50 degrees Celsius

Pair of wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans). These birds nest every 2 years, on islands in the sub-Antarctic. Each pair produces a single egg, which is incubated for 11 weeks

Emperor penguins incubating eggs
Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) males incubating eggs. This picture was taken in August. These are the only penguins to breed in the Antarctic during the winter

Common toads mating (Bufo bufo). The male has climbed onto the females back. He will grasp the female for several days until she is ready to ovulate

Common frogs spawning
Common frogs (Rana temporaria) spawning in a moorland pond. The common frog is found throughout Europe. The breeding season begins in March and it hibernates during the winter

Southern elephant seal roaring
Male southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) roaring. Mature bulls produce this guttural growl to challenge other males during dominance battles

Quagga-like zebra

Grey seals (Halichoerus grypus). Male (left) and female (right) about to mate. The grey seal gives birth to a single pup after a gestation of just under a year

Southern fur seal colony
Southern fur seal (Arctocephalus australis) breeding colony. The southern (or South American) fur seal breeds in large, densely-packed colonies

Southern elephant seals
Southern elephant seal males (Mirounga leonina) sparring. Elephant seals are named for their snout or proboscis, which becomes enlarged during the breeding season

Dead-leaf bush crickets mating
Dead-leaf bush crickets (Typophyllum sp.) mating on a leaf in the rainforest. The smaller male has just transferred a large white sperm packet, known as a spermatophore to the larger female

Flies mating on a grass stalk. The smaller male has mounted the female

Hairy dragonflies mating
Hairy dragonflies (Brachytron pratense) mating. In order to mate, the male grasps the females head with the claspers on the end of his abdomen

Mating dead-leaf bush crickets
Dead-leaf bush crickets (Typophyllum sp.) mating on a leaf in the rainforest. The male is the smaller of the pair

Green tiger beetles mating
Green tiger beetles (Cicindela campestris) mating on moorland. The male is on top. Photographed in the UK

Flightless dung beetle with dung ball
Flightless dung beetle (Scarabaeus rugosus) on top of a dung ball. The dung beetles that roll dung into balls, known as rollers

Ocellaris anemonefish laying eggs
Ocellaris anemonefish (Amphiprion ocellaris) laying eggs. The process of egg laying lasts around half an hour. The female lays between 100- 1000 eggs

Black anemonefish (Amphiprion melanopus) in their host anemone. The female (right) is far larger than the male (left). This fish, also known as the fire clownfish

Adoption

Belyaev with his selectively bred foxes
Dmitri Konstantinovich Belyaev (1917-1985), Soviet zoologist, with his selectively bred foxes. Belyaev, a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Cave spider, egg sac and spiderlings. Cave huntsman spider (Heteropoda) with egg sac and spiderings, on the ceiling of a cave. Large individuals can have legs over 7.5 centimetres long

Common guillemots breeding

Seahorse farm. Water tank containing seahorses (Hippocampus kuda) at Seahorse Ireland, the worlds first seahorse farm. The tanks contain circulating water and seahorses

Mare feeding her young. Photographed in Ostergotland, Sweden

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