This news came only the day before we learned about dolphins’ coral body scrubs. They can recognise one another by the taste of their urine The film Flipper showed barely the half of it. Yet this is dolphins we’re talking about– they may be known as the “dogs of the sea”, but they’re far brighter than your average Labrador, and a lot more surprising.įrom urine tasting to sexually predatory behaviour, here are just a few things to know about the good, the bad and the occasionally ugly world of dolphins. “They don’t just go through – they go up, they come back down again and they rub their belly, their ventral area and the back.” Actually, I think it's quite silly.“It’s very intensive,” Angela Ziltener, one of the study’s lead authors, said. It doesn't really make sense to apply human ethics to their behavior in my opinion. So are ducks and sharks and cannibalizing female praying mantises evil? Ehh, they're animals. But seeing the way nature works, it's obvious why rape is so prevalent: because it benefits the organisms (or, more accurately, the sum of that organism's genes) who have the "rape" genes, whether male or female.
#Dolphin rape serial#
A competent serial rapist can do quite well at reproducing, which has enormous implications-the proliferation of others are likely to rape. It's faster, it doesn't involve courtship or any kind of parenting, or impressing the female.
Because the genes don't have to build bodies, they can be smaller, simpler, evolve faster and reproduce much faster. The genes have much smaller bodies-just a simple protein coat and a proboscis-looking thing which it uses to insert RNA. Hijacking and exploiting already existing organisms. However, there are also quicker and more direct ways to reproduce. Building bodies is a long, roundabout, but tried and true method of replicating. However, genes don't have to build bodies to be successful replicators. That is how that set of genes makes a living. Elephant genes replicate themselves by building elephants. All of the variety of life that we see are different ways that genes replicate themselves and keep themselves existing. We are all survival machines, built by genes, to provide a vehicle for them to use to survive. It's exploitative, but you see that throughout nature. Rape tends to be an adaptive behavior for animals. Neither are ducks, which are also known to engage in vicious gang rape. Notice that sharks aren't particularly known as intelligent creatures.
If they drown 100% of the time, then they're not passing on their DNA and it's not adaptive behavior-but if it's only a fraction of the time, then I could see the behavior making sense in evolutionary terms. Studies would suggest the behaviour is likely to be undertaken for reasons of pleasure as much as reproduction, as dolphins are known to enjoy sexual activity in cases when reproduction would be physically impossible.Ĭlick to expand.Well, that depends. When they find a suitable female they literally force her to mate with one or more of the group, and have even been known to herd their unwilling consorts for months at a time, basically using them as their personal sex-slaves.Īlthough dolphins are not alone in the animal world of gang-rapists, research suggests they’ve the perfected the art to a degree unseen in any other species, and it seems they don’t limit their advances to their female partners, either: there are several reports claiming divers and swimmers have also been accosted. In order to coerce the reluctant females, males form groups of two or three – often remaining together in their search for sexual gratification for well over a decade. Researchers have been studying the sexual behaviour of dolphins intensely for the last decade, after it was discovered they not only partake in homosexual activity (read more HERE), but also gang-rape and kidnap females who don’t reciprocate their sexual advances. But how many of us are aware of their slightly less courteous behaviour? Some of us (including myself) have even been lucky enough to swim with one. Many of us have seen them performing tricks in captivity or watched them on television displaying the same manoeuvres in the wild. We humans love to get close to these clever, cute and cuddly sea-creatures, but do you know how they treat their women in the world of dolphin debauchery? Do you really want to?Įver since Flipper appeared on our screens we’ve known dolphins to be highly intelligent, social creatures with an advanced communication system and the tendency to help humans when in trouble.
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