Wild Animal Mating: Intriguing Foreplay and Mobile Orgies
A scientific report reveals the diverse and inventive methods of sexual engagement among animals. Serotine bats have been found to mate without penetration, transferring semen through contact with the vulva. Dolphins engage in mass orgies on the move, while whales engage in foreplay for hours and exhibit homosexuality. Octopuses and cuttlefish have unique mating rituals, and walruses possess the largest penis bones among mammals. Birds also have peculiar mating behaviors, such as dunnocks inducing females to expel sperm from previous partners and female muscovy ducks evolving incompatible vaginas to avoid unwanted attention. Humans, too, are animals, and sex remains an improbable arrangement across species.