Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I don't like apartments - the idea of other people living, copulating and defecating above me - they make me feel as trapped as a slice of ham in a sandwich. When I was a student in Paris, I always rented attics right at the top of buildings, and as soon as I was making enough money, I bought houses.

Belgian Dramatist

Alan Moore

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

British Writer

Emo Philips

My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

American Comedian

Orson Welles

The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

American Actor

Eric Hoffer

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

American Writer

Used to describe the natural process of animals or humans producing young.

Biological Context

This term is often found in scientific texts; it may be overly formal or clinical in everyday conversation.

Explicit Content

Appropriate for mature discussions, may not be suitable for children or informal chats.

Adult Audience

Specific to technical contexts often relating to parts of a machine or system.

Technical Use

Indicates the need for precision in the joining or fitting together of parts.

Precision Needed

In technical fields, 'copulate' may have a specific meaning different from 'connect' or 'join'.

Not Always Interchangeable

 I would also like to tell the world that animals love. There's not an animal on this planet that will copulate with anything that comes along. Too old, too young, too scruffy, too stupid, and they won't do it. Unless you're stuck in a laboratory cage -- and you know, if you spend your entire life in a little box,

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 and that the incredible amount of effort to deliver those sketches for years and years and years is not only something to be derided we would merely write it off as merely execution now to argue that that is as absurd as stating that 30 minutes of copulation is the creative

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 you apparently a bite that might feel a bit like a bee sting but really totally harmless otherwise not so harmless to the males they were often required to give her a present before she will engage in copulation and if she finds their present distasteful she will turn

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 by nature could help explain breeding behaviors among birds basically in the 80s scientists discovered that songbirds were more polyamorous than expected and it turned out that this phenomenon called extra pair copulation or epc was behind the

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 But biologists have repeatedly observed that females choose to have sex with the males that have the long appendages. Why do they do this? Well, according to the biological literature, "During copulation, the genitalia of certain males

The birds and the bees...

 when it gets really hot and sometimes they even copulate in the water tapirs are nocturnal they're solitary and they have this amazing flexible a snout that they use to grab their food and speaking of food they're herbivores

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 the largest in the world they weigh a ton and produce gallons of sperm one coupling can flush out whatever preceded it so it may not be the first male who succeeded in copulating who becomes a father it will be the last

The Sperm Whale Prepares...

 of another bird and now they're copulating the male has actually gone back he's resting a foot on her but also supporting his weight and that's all the contact the male will have with that

Male Hummingbirds Sing...

 Over three days, a lioness can copulate 300 times. When one male has had enough, she allows the other to take over. keeping them both happy.

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 is that it is important that this happens only when death is instant and in a dramatic way and in the right position for copulation.

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