Particularly when they are engaged in other activities, like copulation, which requires coming partway out of the shell.

尤其当它们忙于其他活动时，比如配，这需要它们部分身体从壳里出来。”

The rituals displayed can convey reproductive fitness or they can just trick reluctant mates into copulation.

所展示仪式传达生殖能力，也欺骗不情愿配偶进行配。

For males, it might just be a few moments of copulation and that's it.

对于雄性来说，这能短暂配，仅此而已。

(Laughter) Now, we define extra-pair copulation as the mating outside of a pair bond.

（笑声） 现在，我们将配对之配定义为配对之配。

It originates from the copulation of the dragon and the tiger.

它源自龙虎合。

Researchers tested to see whether showing several demonstrations of copulation would lead to a higher percentage of learned mate preference.

研究人员进行了测试，了解展示多次配示范否会导致更高比例习得择偶偏好。

But is there anything above and beyond that that is the result of actual copulation and interacting with those spines?

但除此之还有什么实际配和与这些刺相互作用结果吗？

For example, the fact that I am really outgoing and I'm not shy talking about sex and copulation and things like that.

例如，我真很向，而且我并不害羞地谈论性和配之类事情。

And it's obviously not exactly what happens during copulation but it's the closest we're going to get when we look at these large vertebrates.

这显然不配过程中发生事情，但这我们观察这些大型脊椎动物时最接近情况。

This act of copulation, fertilization perhaps, which should have been no more to me than a bee is to a flower, had become for me indecorous, an embarrassing breach of propriety, which it hadn't been before.

这种配、受精行为，也许对我而言，就像蜜蜂对一朵花一样，对我来说已经变得不雅，一种令人尴尬违反礼仪行为，这在前没有。