| 1. | All major mating flights are preceded by a day of rain.
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| 2. | Queens typically mate with multiple drones on more than one mating flight.
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| 3. | After a few days, the males and females will leave for their mating flights.
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| 4. | Mating flights begin in the early morning when individuals of both sexes emerge from the colony.
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| 5. | When a female comes into estrus, interested males compete to catch her in a mating flight.
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| 6. | It is understood within the Weyr that sex during mating flights is not optional for the rider.
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| 7. | During these periods, all green mating flights resulted in homosexual intercourse between the riders of the dragons involved.
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| 8. | Meanwhile, the males generally only live for a day or two after the mating flights and will then die.
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| 9. | Bronzes, the largest males, are by tradition the only ones who compete to win the queens in their mating flights.
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| 10. | They also contain special quarters for riders who are involved in mating flights, as their private weyrs are often inaccessible from the ground.
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