Pseudocopulation
Sign in to savePseudocopulation is a behavior similar to copulation that serves a reproductive function for one or both participants but does not involve actual sexual union between the individuals. It is most generally applied to a pollinator attempting to copulate with a flower adapted to mimic a potential female mate. The resemblance may be visual, but the key stimuli are often chemical and tactile. The form of mimicry in plants that deceives an insect into pseudocopulation is called Pouyannian mimicry after the French lawyer and amateur botanist Maurice-Alexandre Pouyanne.
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La pseudocopulation ou mimétisme pouyannien (en hommage aux travaux de M. Pouyanne) désigne un simulacre d'accouplement au cours duquel le mâle n'introduit pas directement le sperme dans les voies génitales de la femelle, notamment lorsqu'il se fait leurrer par une fleur mimant sa partenaire sexuelle.
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