Dolphins: What Happens in the Ocean Stays in the Ocean
Warning: If you're uncomfortable reading about intercourse and masturbation, I recommend you do not read this article.
Dolphins are incredibly intelligent animals and are renowned for their grace and agility. Movies like "Flipper" and "Dolphin Tale," marine exhibits, and tourism show off their beautiful jumps and tricks, making the public love them even more. Ask almost anyone, and adults and children alike will tell you they love dolphins.
Dolphins, however, are extremely horny animals. Their libido is so high, observational studies have found that ~30% of their time is spent on sexual activities. To put it in perspective, that's about 7 hours of a 24 hour day spent on sexual pleasure. SEVEN HOURS. Sounds tiring, except that dolphins only sleep approximately every 5 days, so they don't care.
As humorous as it may sound reading about it, it is important to know and expect this behaviour before you go diving with dolphins. Some divers report that it can be an extremely stressful and scary ordeal if the dolphin becomes particularly aggressive.
If dolphins can't find another dolphin, they'll masturbate with just about anything. Just a simple Google or YouTube search, and there are many stories of awkward encounters with masturbating dolphins. Male on female? Check. Male on male? Check. Threesomes? Check. Orgies? Check. Other species? Double check. Human divers? Of course (http://huff.to/1DKaLeu). Dead stuff? Yup (http://bit.ly/1HvObbd). Still-alive eel wrapped around its penis? Oh yes, that happened too. And let's not forget last year when a lady dolphin trainer revealed that in the 1960's she would let her male dolphin masturbate with her before his training sessions (http://bit.ly/1CMTBJt), or the gentleman who wrote a book about having an exclusive sexual relationship with a lady-dolphin in the 1970's (http://huff.to/1DKaLeu– bottom of page).
I guess you could say they're just having a "whale" of a time! (Oh god, that was an awful joke)
~Rosie
Other disturbing facts about dolphins: http://bit.ly/1JLSVc0 Images: http://to.pbs.org/1NNokk1 http://bit.ly/1FN1fo7 Reference: http://bit.ly/1EJJ1rr