Live imaging of ovulation in action reveals three distinct phases in mice
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7447942.stm, and https://www.nature.com/articles/453965a.pdf
Separately, a woman at about the same time actually volunteered to undergo a surgery specifically to observe the phenomenon on video, also by laparoscopy.
There are plenty of videos on YouTube that are clearly sexual in nature and publicly available to people of all ages.
Searching for the video ID (2-VKgdhfNpY) on Google Images returns obvious images of a laparoscopy.
Second - the rupture event looks so violent but iiuc it’s actually highly controlled: - the rupture site is thinned early in the ovulation process - the expansion step pulls in fluid to the ovary (builds internal pressure) - the contraction phase restricts the cell volume (which also builds internal pressure) - the oocyte is launched out of the cell at a relatively high speed
And once a mouse is conceived, it goes through 28 Theiler states.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/Jax_GSA/IMGC2005_Works...
Nature orchestrates things perfectly.
> Images were captured using a combination of confocal and two-photon microscopy, live imaging isolated mouse ovarian follicles.