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  • Apparently Bonobo chimps do, although their reputation as the gentle flower children of the primate family has suffered somewhat recently. I *think* I've read of other chimps raping others... It's hard to imagine dolphins raping; they can't hold another one down.
  • That is an interesting question. I don't think Dolphins could physically accomplish coitus with an unwilling female in water. It would be very difficult if not impossible.
  • Rape isn't about sexual pleasure, it's about power.
  • "...right" no. Bonobos, for one, also have sex for pleasure. But yes, dolphin 'rapes' have been reported. As have chimpanzee and bonobo rapes. Rape being defined, by me at least, as sex which the female does not want, or sex being forced upon her, or the male using physical force to have sex with her, or something like that. There are reports in dolphins, bonobos, etc, committing 'gang rapes,' more than one male restraining a female while one or more males have sex with her. What that's got to do with pleasure I dunno.
  • I don't know what pleasure and rape have to do with one another but lots of animal males rape or have sex with an unwilling female out there. Even muscovey ducks will rape and pillage the females and they are huge male ducks with these tiny females. It's awful to see.
  • This is an interesting question because what animal doesn't mate for 'pleasure'? Pigs can orgasm for 30 minutes. And for most dolphins, the bulk of mating does actually occur in the mating season and very little not in the mating season. However, like others have said, some Great Apes mate for pleasure also. Compared with humans, we don't have mating seasons so it can really be defined as pleasure. River dolphins live solitary lives so they don't mate unless a partner seeks them out during mating season so, therefore, River dolphins are just like the majority of other animals who only mate during mating season. And yes...forced copulation in dolphins is documented in a number of species but mainly the Bottlenose. In Shark Bay, Australia, male Bottlenose dolphins will gang attack females by herding her, forming a circle around her, sometimes holding her captive for upto a month and will frequently bite, ram and push her and take turns mating with her over and over. Research also shows she sends out distress calls...meaning she does not want the males mating with her. The males also send out 'popping' vocalisations which is a threatening behavior. Forced copulation is common among animals because most animals, including dolphins participate in 'infanticide'-where males will kill the offspring of another male so he can mate with the female. The REAL reason males will mate many times with one female and the reason females mate with many different males is not 'pleasure', it is this: the females want to confuse the male so the male will not kill the calf (because it may be his) and the male wants his genes to be the ones that spread.
  • good question
  • I know they are supposed to be friendly kind and warm, but has she ever written? called? NOTHING!

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