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What is amplexus?

What is amplexus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A form of pseudocopulation, found chiefly in amphibians and horseshoe crabs, in which a male grasps a female with his front legs as part of the mating process.
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A successful male stays in amplexus for several days and, as the female lays a long, double string of small black eggs, he fertilises them with his sperm.
Quick climb onto my back and cry wreck it wreck it like a frog in the grip of ecstatic amplexus.
The males mount the females' backs, grasping them with their fore limbs under the armpits in a grip that is known as amplexus.
Multiparous Soft, membranous area of ventral prosoma dark colored, rub marks present on opisthosoma indicating previous amplexus.
Axillary amplexus typically results in long strings of eggs being laid in ponds or streams, which hatch into type IV tadpoles.
Most anurans have external fertilization, and adopt a mating posture called amplexus to insure contact between eggs and sperm.

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