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In the mating season bears use the margins of lakes and streams as natural highways. As he drew nearer and nearer I gazed with a kind of fascination at the big unconscious brute. He carried his head low, and dropped his feet with a heavy splash into the shallow water. At twenty yards he stopped as if struck, with head up and one paw lifted, sniffing suspiciously.
The moths emerge on the ground, and climb these trees to unfold and harden their wings. The females usually remain where they are, and the males are attracted to them. If undisturbed they do not fly until after mating and egg depositing are accomplished. The males take wing as soon as dusk of the first night arrives, after their wings are matured.
March brought the wild geese honking northward, and great flocks of snow-white swans came daily out of the southern horizon to sail overhead and lose themselves along the Upper Coast, for it was mating and nesting time, and the heat of the south had driven them early from its broad lagoons.
There were a great many things Hollister was determined to have for himself and Doris and their children, for he did not close his eyes to the natural fulfilment of the mating impulse. He did not spare himself. Like Mills, he worked with a prodigious energy.
Medea's difficulty was that which is oftenest in the way of a woman carrying her business in life to a satisfactory completion false mating. It is not a difficulty peculiar to woman. Man knows it as often. It is the heaviest curse society brings on human beings the most fertile cause of apathy, agony, and failure.
I also met with great numbers of Grouse or prarie hens as they are called by the English traders of the N. W. these birds appeared to be mating; the note of the male is kuck, kuck, kuck, coo, coo, coo. the first part of the note both male and female use when flying. the male also dubbs something like the pheasant, but by no means as loud. after breakfast Capt.
Another question often asked concerning the bird is, "Would the egg be laid if it were not fertilized?" It might be or it might not. In all forms of life the sensitive reproductive system responds with peculiar readiness to its environment. In birds if it does not receive the stimulus that comes from mating, the ova may not develop at all, but remain small and attached to the ovary.
Johnnie was not inexperienced in matters of the heart. Mating time comes early in the mountains.
"In every way!" and a lovely light of tenderest pity filled her eyes as she spoke "Tired of the same old round of working, mating, breeding and dying for no results really worth having! Civilisation after civilisation has arisen always with strife and difficulty, only to pass away, leaving, in many cases, scarce a memory.
"Dear" and "darling" were too terribly intimate for them to achieve quickly; and, unlike most mating couples, they did not overwork the love- words.
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