Sex-mad dolphins have 'orgies on the move' as they swim and even use headless fish as makeshift sex toys, boffins have found.
Research published last week showed that 'serotine bats have sex unlike any other mammal,' namely that the animals touch their genitals together to mate because of the male penis being too thick for the female's vagina.
This has shed new light on the strange reproductive, or purely pleasure-driven, habits of other animals. The Guardian reported how dolphins appear 'addicted to sex play.'
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Males dolphins have been observed inserting their penises into sharks’ orifices, into the gap between turtles’ bodies and shells, and have even been seen to use dead headless fish as a sort of sex toy.
The latter occurence was witnessed in an aquarium in Duisburg, Germany, in 2012. ViralHog reported the witness as saying: "I went to the zoo with my family and we were passing by the dolphin.
"All of a sudden, my sister says to me to 'look at what the dolphin was doing'. We all started laughing and I was recording the whole thing"
Like humans, dolphins have sex for pleasure and not just to reproduce. If they are stressed, the animals go off sex, too.
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They can also get creative with sex, and they are thought to spend about three months in sexual play in the wild.
In August 2017 a group of male dolphins were seen having a 'gay orgy' off the coast of Western Australia in Shark Bay.
"These dolphins, all but three of them juveniles, organized themselves in four sub-groups in which they were observed engaging in socio-sexual behavior that included mounting and genital contact between individuals," Krista Nicholson, of Murdoch University, explained.
"The subgroups joined, frequently forming a large group and then split again in different group compositions."
Janet Mann, a researcher, proposed that they may just be practicing mating with females.
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