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 Hecamede and its behaviour
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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 23-09-2009 21:11
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 Member Location: Portugal Posts: 3123 Joined: 19.06.07 |
I found some Hecamede specimens feeding and walking on some kind of droping. They were performing, on several occasions, a strange behaviour in which a specimen jumps on top of another but never tries to copulate. Instead it looks like it was trying to "kiss" the other, and then they rolled around, and some squeezes later they would separate. Are they just crazy flies or does this mean something else? Please see the videos. It looks like H. albicans, right? location: Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal date: 22/09/2009    YouTube Video YouTube Video YouTube Video |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 23-09-2009 21:15
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Wow - at last - something interesting on YouTube!! 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 23-09-2009 21:23
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Member Location: Portugal Posts: 3123 Joined: 19.06.07 |
Thanks Chris. They are very wild flies. |
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| lagura |
Posted on 23-09-2009 22:02
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 Member Location: Helsingborg, Sweden Posts: 1241 Joined: 24.10.08 |
Wow Rui those are great videos! I've never enjoyed wrestling until now In the beginning of the second video it looks like he's saying "Come on, you coward! Show me what you've got!"
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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 23-09-2009 22:48
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Member Location: Portugal Posts: 3123 Joined: 19.06.07 |
Thank you Lars, I am glad you enjoyed the videos. This is not a common wrestling combat, because in this case the opponents kiss each other. |
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