Talk:Animal sexual behaviour
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[edit] Moles
In the section on moles, it states
"It has also been recorded that certain species of mole will 'rape' new borns of their own species, the biological advantage to this is that when those moles mature and become fertile, they will become pregnant with the sperm of the mole that had mated with them at a very young age."
The problem i see is that can the sperm survive inside the newborns for long enough to them to mature? I am by no means an expert on the subject, and found nothing at a quick glance on the cycle of maturation on moles, but to the best of my knowledge seminal fluid can only sustain the sperm inside the female body for 40 or so hours. That of course as a result of the natural reaction of the female body to destroy the semen immediatly after it enters the vaginal cavity.
As I said, i am no expert on the subject, so I may be far off here, I'm not going to touch it, I'll let someone who knows what they are doing do that, but I felt the need to point this out.
[edit] Chimpanzee rapes a frog
Have you ever seen this? it needs to be mentioned here, it's video evidence. and i think there could be a lot of interesting things that scientists might think of to say about this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVE60zwXx1k —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.224.98.35 (talk) 20:05, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Homosexuality is exclusive
Uhhhhh.......correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't homosexuality EXCLUSIVE same-sex sexual behavior? And wouldn't that then mean that male dolphins that engage in sex play together in pursuit of females are not homosexual, but bisexual? And how many of the supposed 1500 homosexual-including species are more accurately bisexual? Sounds like pro-homo propaganda to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 214.13.141.100 (talk) 01:11, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
- I know right? ~ Anonymous — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.55.174.9 (talk) 10:28, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Found a bunch of pictures
At http://www.weirdexistence.com/very-naughty-animals/ . There are photos of cross species sex (or at least humping), like giraffe with donkey, deer with dog, raccoon with dog, and a few animal oral sex (mostly monkeys/apes). There's also a few pictures of confused/desperate males using substitutes. If I knew about copyrights and all the permission stuff, then I try to do it myself. Gatorgirl7563 (talk) 17:45, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Use of Snopes.com as a reference
I like snopes and use it all the time, but I was surprised to see it used as a reference for this article. Perhaps I don't understand their qualifications or the Wikipedia criteria for references. I would certainly have the same concerns about weirdexistence.com. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AmigoNico (talk • contribs) 14:49, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Mating during pregnancy
Hi everyone, I'm from Israel and I'm a member of the Hebrew Wikipedia. I was asked by a colleague of mine to write here a question on a topic which we couldn't find an answer for. So we hope that maybe someone here would be able to answer our question.
The question is: Are there any known examples or observations of animals of some kind that engage in sexual activity (mating) during the female's pregnancy? Any example on this topic would be appreciated. Thanks, Rony. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.229.106.119 (talk) 13:26, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
