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] Bondage
Somebody please mention the question of this connection: Talk:Bondage_(BDSM)#Bondage_in_cats. Jidanni (talk) 02:17, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Archiving
I've boldly added auto archiving of threads stale for two months - the bot will leave at least five threads so the page doesn't empty. -- Banjeboi 22:51, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Citations?
"Hybrid offspring can result from two organisms of distinct but closely related parent species, although the resulting offspring is not always fertile[citation needed]. According to the definition of a species, If two organisms cannot or will not mate and produce a fertile offspring, they are different species[citation needed]. "
What the hell is this? I of course mean the two [citation needed]s. The first is explained in the sentence following this passage, the second IS THE DEFINITION. I learned that in 8th grade biology! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.253.124.24 (talk) 17:50, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Nasal sex
The Times article is definitely not a joke, the question lies if the exhibit is. Here's the section of the article.
'A model — the one that invariably draws most giggles from the exhibition’s younger visitors — shows a male Amazonian river dolphin penetrating another’s blowhole. “This is the only example of nasal sex we have in nature,” Brockman observes.'
The article does not say that the reproduced behaviour really occurs or has occurred in nature. I am very certain that Brockman is joking. He is not observing an occurring sexual act, but a model of it. According to the article he takes his observation from the model, which he comments as being the only example of nasal sex.
My bottom line is, according to the article, no nasal sex between real dolphins has occurred anywhere. If this is the case, please submit an undisputable reference. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Efnian (talk • contribs) 21:26, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Humans
The tone of this article suggests humans as being just another animal which I found radically humorous at first but it got annoying and distracting as I read on. There are too many instances for me to fix so I'm hoping someone else will do the honor. dearly (talk) 04:52, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
