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The whales were seen copulating by photographers Lyle Krannichfeld and Brandi Romano on January 19, 2022.
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Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
Local folklore holds that copulating on the giant's crotch will help a couple conceive a child, and there is an Iron Age earthwork known as the Trendle at the top of the hill in which the giant has been carved.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2024
Fasel and his colleagues observed 93 instances of the bats copulating, mostly in videos shot by Jeucken.
—Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2023
Suttree, published in 1979, was equally bleak, though also darkly funny, with one passage involving a kid who gets arrested after copulating with every watermelon in a farmer’s patch.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2023
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Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024
Local folklore holds that copulating on the giant's crotch will help a couple conceive a child, and there is an Iron Age earthwork known as the Trendle at the top of the hill in which the giant has been carved.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2024
Fasel and his colleagues observed 93 instances of the bats copulating, mostly in videos shot by Jeucken.
—Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2023
Suttree, published in 1979, was equally bleak, though also darkly funny, with one passage involving a kid who gets arrested after copulating with every watermelon in a farmer’s patch.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2023
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“Copulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copulate. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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