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Courtship -- Cynops pyrrhogaster, Part 2

Professor Stevan J. Arnold, Oregon State University; courtship behavior in Cynops pyrrhogaster (Japanese Fire-bellied Newt); raw footage shot in 1970 on 16mm film. Shows tail-fanning, tail-nudging walk, spermatophore deposition, and sperm transfer. A published account based in part on this video can be found in Arnold 1972. Animals from Hiroshima, Japan. Made available by Dr. Christina Richards, Amphibian Facility, Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Image quality even worse than usual (due to the steps from film to video image) but we kept this one up because of the unusual male-like female behavior near the end. More on this later.