Sunday, September 28, 2014

Female Mating Acceptance Posture!


After almost five years of research, with the aid of certain applied stimuli it would appear that it is now possible to trigger captive, non-gravid female Apatura to adopt the well accepted mating acceptance posture:



Many more experiments await. However, for references of acceptance postures please refer to the following links: Langlois (1964), Nishida (1996), Wantanabe (2011). The links can be found below:

https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/4971/1/V64N01_001.pdf

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02029947#page-1

http://images.peabody.yale.edu/lepsoc/jls/2010s/2011/2011-65-4-259.pdf

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