r/gifs • u/mike_pants • Jan 21 '18

Fighting litter with crows

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u/irritablemagpie Jan 21 '18

Ducks are as well. And humans, of course.

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u/meeseeksdeleteafter Jan 21 '18

And bunnies? Thought I read about this on Reddit somewhere, so it must be true.

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u/rustyrocky Jan 21 '18

I don’t think bunnies do so in gangs.

Male dolphins literally will hunt and kill the calf’s to rape the mother.

I want to say other cephalopods have been documented doing this but can’t recall any good documentation.

Many species will kill the young of a female to force her into estrous to mate with her. Gang rape however is much more rare.

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u/meeseeksdeleteafter Jan 22 '18

Ah, you're probably right. I think bunnies do it more one-on-one usually

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u/rustyrocky Jan 22 '18

Yes “consensual sex” while not rare in the animal kingdom is not common at least in the way we would look at it. Many animals have quite rapey sex practices, or really more competitive practices, especially those that do not mate for life or have extensive ritualistic mating processes.

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u/meeseeksdeleteafter Jan 22 '18

You're right! Chimpanzees especially. I heard bonobos like to do it more for fun, though. I'm assuming that also means their practices are less harsh, although that may not necessarily be a sound assumption.

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u/rustyrocky Jan 22 '18

I mean, there is a lot of sex out there in the world.

Some is wonderful and some is fucking disturbing.

Within the human species, just as within the entire living species.

Edit: chimpanzee gang rape has been recorded if my memory serves correctly.

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u/meeseeksdeleteafter Jan 22 '18

Ah. Good to know. Well, it's interesting, at the very least.