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Conroy said he recently introduced a pair of the daytime octopuses and believes the two animals copulated.

From Washington Times • Dec. 30, 2015

In a new study, researchers placed laboratory mice that had recently copulated on a regimen of artificial daylight.

From Science Magazine • May 23, 2012

Amourous male meadow voles can tell how many partners his potential fragrant partner has copulated with, all by her smell and that of rival males nearby.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2011

"Ten percent of the exposed genetic males developed into functional females that copulated with unexposed males and produced viable eggs," the researchers wrote.

From Reuters • Mar. 2, 2010

On the seventeenth we found no eggs in the hive; the queen was as slender as the first day; therefore the male, with which she had copulated, had not impregnated her eggs.

From New observations on the natural history of bees by Huber, François