Dolphin is a common name of aquatic mammals within the infraorder Cetacea. The term dolphin usually refers to the extant families Delphinidae the oceanic dolphins , Platanistidae the Indian river dolphins , Iniidae the New World river dolphins , and Pontoporiidae the brackish dolphins , and the extinct Lipotidae baiji or Chinese river dolphin. There are 40 extant species named as dolphins. Dolphins range in size from the 1.
Everything you always wanted to know about dolphin sex—but were afraid to ask
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Everything you always wanted to know about dolphin sex—but were afraid to ask | Science | AAAS
To support our nonprofit science journalism, please make a tax-deductible gift today. A: Copulation is the most direct possible interaction between males and females, but we know so little about it largely due to the physical challenges of studying it, especially with underwater creatures. We do this by looking at tissue samples from animals that died of natural causes. We use whole penises and whole vaginas. A: Yeah. We found a way to inflate them so they would be the most close mimic of what a real intromission would look like.
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The structure of female dolphin reproductive anatomy, though, can speak for itself. At the Experimental Biology conference held April in Orlando, Florida, marine mammal researcher Dara Orbach presented preliminary findings from one of the first studies to examine bottlenose dolphin clitorises. Orbach and her co-author, Patricia Brennan, both from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, were surprised to find dolphin clitorises have several bundles of nerves, similar to human clitorises.
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RIP, August Ames.
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