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This film captures a rare case of failed mating, in which the female escaped from the male halfway through the mating. (No eggs are released yet.). The male went "crazy" and showed a circling courtship display again and again. He started mating with the same female repeatedly and kept losing her halfway. But he made it at the end. While observing the fish, I felt as if the fish had mentality like humans and behaved like humans. This is a MPG file of about 420 KB.
This video picture is a part of home pages "School of the Japanese rice-fish" and "Mating and hatching".
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/kazu/ym/ (translated by Asoh)

(Data No.momo031216un05b)

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