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* The ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/PokemonS3E39ForestGrumps Forest Grumps]]" revolves around the gang being attacked by angry Ursaring during mating season.
* Chapter 81 of ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' deals with Ilulu going into heat and attempting to force herself onto Kobayashi. Tohru's attempts to tire her out with a sparring match fail, as Ilulu simply goes onto her instead.

* The ''Teen Titans'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12393517/1/Prey-Mate Prey Mate]]'' starts when the half-demon Raven hits her second heat. She looks for someone to help with her heat and ends up attracted to Jinx (due to Jinx's magical abilities).
* PlayedForDrama in ''Fanfic/{{Chemistry}}''. If Cadance doesn't take her medication, she enters a heat-like state which is very uncomfortable and hard to temper.
* ''Fanfic/DailyEquestriaLifeWithMonsterGirl'' has a variant. Technically, centaurs don't have a mating season. Biologically, they are capable of sex at any time and their interests don't wax and wane. However, in the modern era centaur reproduction requires certain special arrangements to be made, arrangements complicated and risky enough that they are only used once a year, during a few nights in the spring.

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* In ''Literature/MarkOfTheCat'', the women of the Outer Regions may go into heat. [[note]]Some are apparently infertile and never go into heat, although it can be faked, albeit with some difficulty.[[/note]] Those that do emit pheromones that attract the attention of every man in the vicinity. They compete to impress her, and she chooses her favorite to mate with. Rather like cats, in fact.
* Hares in ''Literature/FrostDancers'' call mating season "frost dancing". It's a turbulent season where jacks fight over jills. It's the only time where hares have a hierarchy.
* The Parshendi in ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' are a race of crustacean people who can change between different forms every Highstorm. Each form is suited to a different task, and influences the mind of the user as well as the body. Mateform makes the wearer silly and irresponsible, focused almost entirely on sex, so most Parshendi prefer other forms when they don't want to reproduce.

* In ''Series/DarkAngel'', Max's feline DNA causes her to go into heat a few times a year. In the second season, when she's carrying a virus tailored to kill her boyfriend Logan, this causes... issues.

* In ''VideoGame/DontStarve'', normally peaceful beefalo become extremely aggressive during mating season, during which baby beefalo spawn offscreen.

* In the furry comic ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'' Annie, as an anthropomorphic red fox, goes into heat [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20000131.html once a year]]. It starts out as her acting even hornier than normal, but then turns into a massive case of PMS.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E5WhyMustIBeACrustaceanInLove Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?]]" has Zoidberg behaving erratically because it's mating season for his species. He ends up in a duel to the death with Fry over a decapodian woman in a parody of ''Star Trek'''s "Amok Time".

* Being a CatGirl Nekomata, Koneko of ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD'' can go into this. However being also fairly physically small at her age means that actually going through with it and getting pregnant would be ''very'' dangerous and thus she and Issei avoid actually going through with the instincts of heat.

->"As a young fela I scorned the young males in our tribe--they were overbold and self-satisfied. When I came into my season I made sure to be far away from the clan, so I would not be betrayed by nature into bearing a litter that I did not yet desire. I found that I ''enjoyed'' being by myself; enjoyed the solitary way of the hunter."

* ''LightNovel/CatPlanetCuties'': When Eris hits her first mating season, it causes her to go even more hyper and sexually suggestive than normal, and she attempts to forcefully kiss not just Kio but also Manami. Dr. Durel ends up being forced to give her an injection to end it early so she doesn't cause any further trouble.
* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episode "[[Recap/PokemonS3E39ForestGrumps Forest Grumps]]" revolves around the gang being attacked by angry Ursaring during mating season.

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** Vulcans experience ''pon farr'' every seven years, a hormonal imbalance that will [[MateOrDie kill them unless they mate]] or participate in a DuelToTheDeath. Being {{Proud Scholar Race Guy}}s, they find the whole experience extremely mortifying, and to make matters worse, ''pon farr'' will inevitably occur in the most inconvenient and messy way possible, dragging the afflicted Vulcans (and their friends unlucky enough to find themselves caught in the middle) through an episode's worth of violent chaos.
*** The episode that introduced the concept, "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime Amok Time]]", shows Spock gradually losing his mind to the madness while trying to keep the whole thing from his friends. When Kirk finally gets him to confess, he invites the captain and [=McCoy=] to his wedding, only for it to go off the rails when the bride insists Spock fight to win her hand and picks Kirk as the other fighter. The results leave Spock devastated almost to the point of suicide before he finds out Kirk [[DeathFakedForYou wasn't really dead.]]
*** ''Voyager's'' episode "Blood Fever" has the insanity crossing racial boundaries when Vorik, one of the Vulcan crewmen, starts losing his mind to ''pon farr''. He forces a mind meld on B'Elanna when she turns down his advances, infecting her with the madness.
** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E19Manhunt Manhunt]]". Lwaxana Troi is going through the Betazoid equivalent of menopause (called "The Phase"), which causes a tremendous increase in her sex drive. She tries to mate with Captain Picard and get married to Commander Riker.
*** When she visits [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E17TheForsaken Deep Space Nine]], she turns her attentions to Odo, of all people. And she's also suffering from what's basically empathic incontinence- she's inadvertently broadcasting her emotions to other people, causing various members of the cast to suddenly experience strong lustful urges toward people they're already attracted to. If they're with someone who has similar feelings for them, the results are merely unprofessional and embarrassing. If they're with someone with someone who ''isn't'' attracted to them, things get much worse. Chief O'Brien nearly attacks Quark after the latter sexually harasses Kiko.
* In ''Series/DarkAngel'' Max's feline DNA causes her to go into heat a few times a year. In the second season, when she's carrying a virus tailored to kill her boyfriend Logan, this causes... issues.

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* On the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Cat Orgy", Cartman's cat is in heat and attracts every male cat in town to his home, where they have the titular orgy.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' had Zoidberg behaving erratically because it was mating season for his species. He ends up in a duel to the death with Fry over a decapodian woman in a parody of Star Trek's "Amok Time".

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* ''Manga/SetonAcademyJoinThePack'': When Ranka Okami the wolf-girl goes into heat and causes no shortage of trouble for Jin Mazama, [[DoYouWantToCopulate asking him to mate with her]] while he's begrudgingly looking after her. Instead he breaks her heart by sneering that he hates her, though he wasn't being truthful.

* In ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'', the Black Diablos are female Diablos in heat. Their shells turn black during the mating season and they are much more aggressive and hostile toward intruders than usual, meaning that both the hunters and the creatures around face huge trouble when a Black Diablos is nearby.
** Male Mitzusune have been known to go berserk during the mating season, they typically aren't hunted (and there are laws saying that they normally can't) but during the mating season, hunting requests come in to hunt males that have gone berserk near inhabited areas.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': Mewman females such as Star go through a process known as "Mewberty." It starts with them shedding little hearts whenever they're around attractive boys, and ends with them transforming into a six-armed butterfly monster that captures and cocoons every male it comes across. Despite how horrifying the whole event is for everyone involved, apparently the best way to deal with it is to just let it run its course. After Star's Mewberty, she has tiny wings that she can barely use to flutter, and her mother later demonstrates the ability to go into six-armed butterfly mode at will.

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* ''Film/{{Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them}}'' features a female Erumphent (a rhinoceros-like creature) who escapes from Newt Scamander's BiggerOnTheInside magical briefcase. As it's her mating season, he finds her at a zoo, attempting to mate with a much smaller hippo and having already destroyed much of the area with her large size. Newt even attempts to lure her back into the case using the musk of a male of her species and imitating the male's mating dance.

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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' had Zoidberg behaving erratically because it was mating season for his species.

* ''LightNovel/CatPlanetCuties'': When Eris hits her first mating season, it causes her to go even more hyper and sexually suggestive than normal, and she attempts to forcefully kiss not just Kio but also [[BiTheWay Manami]]. Dr. Durel ends up being forced to give her an injection to end it early so she doesn't cause any further trouble.

*** When she visits [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E17TheForsaken Deep Space Nine]], she turns her attentions to Odo, of all people.

''Fanfic/DailyEquestriaLifeWithMonsterGirl'' has a variant. Technically, centaurs don't have a mating season. Biologically, they are capable of sex at any time and their interests don't wax and wane. However, in the modern era centaur reproduction requires certain special arrangements to be made, arrangements complicated and risky enough that they are only used once a year, during a few nights in the spring.

* Being a CatGirl Nekomata, Koneko of ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD'' can go into this. However being also fairly physically small at her age means that actually going through with it and getting pregnant would be ''very'' dangerous and thus she avoids actually going through with the instincts of heat.

* Male elephants go into a period called musth when they're ready to mate. The condition can be identified by what look like tear streaks on the head and dribbling urine. They're extremely dangerous and unpredictable during this time due to the pain caused by the swollen glands on their head combined with a massive boost in their testosterone levels.

** Vulcans experience ''pon farr'' every seven years, a hormonal imbalance that will [[MateOrDie kill them unless they mate]] or participate in a DuelToTheDeath.

->''"As a young fela I scorned the young males in our tribe--they were overbold and self-satisfied. When I came into my season I made sure to be far away from the clan, so I would not be betrayed by nature into bearing a litter that I did not yet desire. I found that I ''enjoyed'' being by myself; enjoyed the solitary way of the hunter."''

* The ''Teen Titans'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12393517/1/Prey-Mate Prey Mate]]'' starts when the half-demon Raven hits her second heat. She looks for someone to help with her heat and ends up attracted to Jinx, due to her magical abilities.

->As a young fela I scorned the young males in our tribe--they were overbold and self-satisfied. When I came into my season I made sure to be far away from the clan, so I would not be betrayed by nature into bearing a litter that I did not yet desire. I found that I ''enjoyed'' being by myself; enjoyed the solitary way of the hunter.
--> '''Roofshadow''', ''Literature/TailchasersSong''