The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 209, Issues 4-6National Geographic Society., 2006 - Geography |
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... male dasher dragonfly pursuing a female , like two hyphens of lightning . Or a tiger - striped spiketail diving , twirling , flashing its gossamer wings , then in a blink , meeting a mate to ascend together into the ether . Or a linked ...
... male dasher dragonfly pursuing a female , like two hyphens of lightning . Or a tiger - striped spiketail diving , twirling , flashing its gossamer wings , then in a blink , meeting a mate to ascend together into the ether . Or a linked ...
Page 115
... male sex- ual behavior . Some males embrace females with spiny claspers in a viselike grip that causes dam- age ... male's iron hold . The aptly named dragonhunter ( Hagenius brevistylus ) earned the dubious dis- tinction of inflicting ...
... male sex- ual behavior . Some males embrace females with spiny claspers in a viselike grip that causes dam- age ... male's iron hold . The aptly named dragonhunter ( Hagenius brevistylus ) earned the dubious dis- tinction of inflicting ...
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... male but because she's a less familiar form of female and doesn't fit the male's ' search image ' for a mate . " In recent experiments , Fincke has shown that young males discover what a female looks like by exposure . If they're reared ...
... male but because she's a less familiar form of female and doesn't fit the male's ' search image ' for a mate . " In recent experiments , Fincke has shown that young males discover what a female looks like by exposure . If they're reared ...
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Inside Chernobyl 32 Twenty years after a nuclear reactor exploded blanketing | 36 |
Glen Canyon Revealed 64 A sustained drought has shriveled Lake Powell in the Southwest | 72 |
COVER U S soldiers patrol devastated Market Street in San Francisco | 120 |
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