Reproduction Collection

Horseshoe Crab Reeds Beach, New Jersey, USA
JZ-1983 Horseshoe Crab Reeds Beach, New Jersey, USA. Limulus polyphemus Jim Zipp Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Little owls courtship {Athene noctua} Spain

Red-crowned Crane - pair displaying, necks intertwined. In snow Hokkaido, Japan
WAT-8308 Red-crowned Crane - pair displaying, necks intertwined. In snow Hokkaido, Japan Grus japonensis M. Watson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Lavender pollen grain, SEM
Lavender pollen grain. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a pollen grain (yellow) amongst the petal (papilla) cells (purple) of a French lavender (Lavandula dentata) flower

Chicken & Egg
JD-16811 CHICKEN - looking at an egg studio shot Sequence: 2 of 4 John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

My Studio by Fortunino Matania
Self-portrait of the Italian artist, Fortunino Matania (1881-1963) pictured at work in his studio at 104 Priory Road, Hampstead, London. Date: c.1955

Mushroom spores - close-up
LA-1754 Mushroom spores - close-up Jean Michel Labat Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) courting pair, South coast, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos

Methodus plantarum sexalis in sistemate naturae descripta
Watercolour by George Ehret Dionysius (1708- 1770), 1736. Original artwork held at the Natural History Museum, London

Poster demonstrating Mendels Law in Guinea Pigs (colour litho)
HMB306163 Poster demonstrating Mendels Law in Guinea Pigs (colour litho) by German School; 147x100 cm; Humboldt-Universitaet, Berlin

Los Caprichos by Francisco de Goya (1746-1828)
Francisco de Goya (1746-1828). Spanish painter and printmaker. Los Caprichos. Lo que puede un sastre! (What can a tailor!). Number 52. Aquatint. 1799. Reproduction by M. Segui i Riera

Hazel pollen grains. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of pollen grains from the Hazel tree, Corylus avellana. These microspores are shed from male catkins

Pygmy / Bonobo CHIMPANZEE - mating
WAT-6957 Pygmy / Bonobo CHIMPANZEE - mating Distribution: Zaire Pan paniscus M. Watson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Blue footed booby displaying {Sula nebouxii} Galapagos

Tree Frog - two mating plus another - Costa Rica
AW-6115 TREEFROGS / Splendid leaf frog - two mating plus another Costa Rica, Central American Agalychnis calcarifer Adrian Warren Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Lion - mating pair - Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park - Kalahari - South Africa - Africa
KAT-793 Lion - mating pair Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park - Kalahari - South Africa - Africa Panthera leo Karl Terblanche Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Manila Carnival, The Philippines - Miss Ilocos Sur
Illustration after Walter Dendy Sadler (18541923) of his painting Thursday (Tomorrow will be Friday) of 1880, showing a group of jovial monks out fishing. Date: 1880

Passion flower pollen, SEM
Passion flower pollen. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a passion flower (Passiflora caerulea) pollen grain. Pollen grains are the male gametes (sex cells) of a plant

Celebes Crested Macaque / Crested Black Macaque / Sulawesi Crested Macaque / Black Ape - mating - Tangkoko Nature
MAR-1510 Celebes Crested Macaque / Crested Black Macaque / Sulawesi Crested Macaque / Black Ape - mating Tangkoko Nature Reserve - North Sulawesi - Indonesia Macaca nigra Thomas Marent contact

Giant African Snails: mating, exchanging love darts'. Widely distributed in the tropics
PM-10261 Giant African Snails: mating, exchanging love darts'. Widely distributed in the tropics Achatina sp Pat Morris Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Galapagos Tortoise KF 5154 Copulating geochelone elephantopus © Kenneth Fink / ARDEA LONDON
KF-5154 Galapagos Giant TORTOISE - mating Geochelone elephantopus Endemic to the Galapagos Islands Kenneth W Fink Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Vietnamese Pot Bellied Pig WAT 1031 With piglet © M. Watson / ARDEA LONDON
WAT-1031 PIG - Vietnamese Pot-Bellied Pig and piglet young mounting adult M. Watson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Great Crested Grebes - Pair beside weed platform, courtship displaying. Hessen, Germany
USH-1527 Great Crested Grebes - Pair beside weed platform, courtship displaying. Hessen, Germany. Podiceps cristatus Duncan Usher Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Wood Pigeons - mating
RES-591 Wood Pigeons - mating Columba palumbus George Reszeter Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Chicken chick - 20 day old chick in egg
LA-2611 Chicken chick - 20 day old chick in egg Jean Michel Labat Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Bottlenose Dolphin - Newborn Baby/Calf with Mother immediately after birth
STA-153 Bottlenose Dolphin - Newborn Baby / Calf with Mother immediately after birth Tursiops truncatus Part of a sequence of images Dolphin gestation / pregnancy lasts approx

Male Leach's sea star (Leiaster leachi) broadcast spawning, releasing streams of sperm from its arms. Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan

Siberian unicorn, Elasmotherium sibiricum, on a snowy plain. 1908 (illustration)
7233337 Siberian unicorn, Elasmotherium sibiricum, on a snowy plain. 1908 (illustration) by Harder, Heinrich (1858-1935); Private Collection; (add.info.: Siberian unicorn, Elasmotherium sibiricum)

Sewer depths in the City of London, 1944 (colour litho)
7201427 Sewer depths in the City of London, 1944 (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Town planning survey showing sewer depths in the City of London)

Pygmy Chimpanzee KFO 1194 Copulating, male on top. Central Africa south of Zaire. Pan paniscus © Kenneth W
KFO-1194 Bonobo / pygmy CHIMPANZEES - Copulating, male on top. Distribution: Central Africa, south of Zaire. Pan paniscus Kenneth W Fink Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Red Deer - hinds sexually stimulated during the rut
USH-281 Red Deer - hinds sexually stimulated during the rut Cervus elaphus Duncan Usher Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Mallard Duck - mating Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, DE
JZ-2603 Mallard Duck - mating Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, DE. USA Anas platyrhynchos Jim Zipp Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Nudibranch - Pink Nudibranchs in a group mating bunch Ternate, Indonesia
VT-8355 Nudibranch - Pink Nudibranchs in a group mating bunch Ternate, Indonesia Chromodoris sp. Valerie & Ron Taylor Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Chicken & egg
JD-16813 CHICKEN - with an egg studio shot Sequence: 3 of 4 John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Galapagos blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii excisa), North Seymour Island, Galapagos, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ecuador, South America

Forget-me-not flower, SEM
Forget-me-not flower. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a forget-me-not (Myosotis arvensis) flower. The corolla consists of five petals (blue)

Wood Pigeons - mating
RES-590 Wood Pigeons - mating Columba palumbus George Reszeter Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Chicken chick - Recently hatched from egg
LA-2613 Chicken chick - recently hatched from egg Jean Michel Labat Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Mating pair of chalkhill blue butterflies (Lysandra coridon) with wings closed resting on Devils-bit scabious (Succisa pratensis), Hatch Hill, Somerset, UK. August

Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) pair flying with claws linked during courtship flight, Homer, Alaska, USA, March

Portraits of Henry VIIIs six wives from 1509, (1932). Artist: Rosalind Thornycroft
Portraits of Henry VIIIs six wives; Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr

Green Anaconda - mating, with 3 males Llanos, Venezuela
WAT-8444 Green ANACONDA - mating, with 3 males Llanos, Venezuela Eunectes murinus M. Watson Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

JD 9477
JD-9477 Siamese cats - mating John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way. contact details: prints@ardea.com tel: 020 8318 1401

Bottlenose dolphins - pair dancing underwater
STA-62 Bottlenose dolphins - pair dancing underwater Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions Tursiops truncatus Augusto Leandro Stanzani Please note that prints are for personal display purposes

Kings of England, reproduction of possibly the first jigsaw puzzle, c
1772350 Kings of England, reproduction of possibly the first jigsaw puzzle, c.1820, from The Sketch Magazine, Coronation Number, published 1937 (colour litho) by English School

Japanese crane (Grus japonensis) displaying, wings in heart shape, Hokkiado, Japan, February

Australasian crested grebe pair (Podiceps cristatus australis) in courtship display. Ashburton Lakes, Canterbury, New Zealand. August

Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) performing their weed dance during courtship. Den Oever, The Netherlands. July

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"Nature's Dance of Reproduction: From Blue-Footed Boobies to Mushroom Spores" Witness the enchanting courtship of a Blue-footed booby pair, as they perform an intricate dance on the South coast of Santa Cruz Island. Their synchronized movements and vibrant blue feet captivate onlookers, showcasing their readiness for reproduction. In a microscopic realm, mushroom spores reveal their own unique method of reproduction. A close-up view unveils their delicate structures, ready to disperse and give life to new fungi in the forest. Traveling across continents to Hokkaido, Japan, we encounter a majestic Red-crowned Crane pair displaying affection with intertwined necks amidst a snowy landscape. This elegant ritual symbolizes their commitment to reproducing future generations. Little owls in Spain engage in courtship rituals that are both adorable and fascinating. These nocturnal creatures communicate through subtle gestures and calls as they establish bonds essential for successful mating. Step into Fortunino Matania's studio where artistry meets reproduction. His masterpiece captures the essence of creation through his brushstrokes, reminding us that human creativity is also intertwined with this universal process. Delving deeper into nature's wonders, we explore lavender pollen grains under an electron microscope (SEM). The intricacy and beauty within these tiny particles highlight how even the tiniest elements play crucial roles in plant reproduction. Carl Linnaeus' groundbreaking work "Methodus Plantarum Sexalis" provides insights into systematic descriptions of reproductive methods among plants. His classification system revolutionized our understanding of botanical reproduction processes. The age-old question arises: which came first? Delve into the eternal mystery surrounding chicken and egg - symbols synonymous with birth and renewal - as they remind us that every living being has its origins rooted in this miraculous cycle. Venturing into Costa Rica's lush rainforests reveals amorous tree frogs engaging in passionate embraces.