February 23, 2007: Elephant polo rampage

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by jinx

What about bonobos?

Sexual intercourse plays a major role in Bonobo society, being used as a greeting, a means of conflict resolution and post-conflict reconciliation, and as favors traded by the females in exchange for food.

I wanna be a bonobo. I wonder if that would automatically make me the lead singer for BO?

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

... In the middle of the match, the above elephant became enraged somehow, threw its riders, and ran off and decided to attack this van.
...

The van is big, it's grey, and it was flirting with his girlfriend. What would you do?

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Brianna

...Fun Fact: Dolphins are the only animal, besides men and women, who engage in sex just for FUN! Isn't that cool?

Com'on! Don't you mean sharks?

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Lots of fish are hermaphroditic. I guess that makes them bisexual...in a way.

Auto-bisexual: they can have sex with themselves.

[RellikLaerec]

no i think that would be auto-heterosexual. I mean if your a hermaphrodite, then you have the workings of both! You know it's Brianna's fault for turning this from a discussion about elephants to the sexual orientation of animals!

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Brianna

Ok, you guys have convinced me that dolphins suck.

Oddly, I find it good news, they do. Let's go swimming.

[Trilby]

Anyway, I didn't say dolphins were the smartest, I SAID they are the stewards of the planet.

I hate all of you.

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by Brianna

Anyway, haven't you seen that Star Trek movie or read HitchHikers/Galaxy? Whales and dolphins are the true stewards of this planet

there, I've been reduced to quoting myself.

And I heard the dolphins-having-sex-4-fun thing on the effing DISCOVERY channel. I'm gonna sue.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Brianna

Anyway, I didn't say dolphins were the smartest, I SAID they are the stewards of the planet.

I hate all of you.

Right behind you,
I see the dolphins.
On you,
I see the glory.
From them,
I get opinions.
From you,
I get the true story.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Brianna

there, I've been reduced to quoting myself.

And I heard the dolphins-having-sex-4-fun thing on the effing DISCOVERY channel. I'm gonna sue.

Sue? Why, it's true.

[jinx]

Got to hand it to the mistress, she just wanted it more.

[vincente]

Here is a Video of the Elephant in the picture..

Video

[xoxoxoBruce]

Hi vincente, welcome to the Cellar.
It didn't take them long to get that on youtube.

[SPUCK]

These people are disgusting idiots... Poor pachyderm.. His pissed and their solution is to throw stones at him. Dipwads..

Welcome Vincente. Oh and thanks..

[BigV]

jinx, *I* heard you about the bonobos.

Sex, it turned out, is the key to the social life of the bonobo. The first suggestion that the sexual behavior of bonobos is different had come from observations at European zoos. Wrapping their findings in Latin, primatologists Eduard Tratz and Heinz Heck reported in 1954 that the chimpanzees at Hellabrun mated more canum (like dogs) and bonobos more hominum (like people). In those days, face-to- face copulation was considered uniquely human, a cultural innovation that needed to be taught to preliterate people (hence the term "missionary position"). These early studies, written in German, were ignored by the international scientific establishment. The bonobo's humanlike sexuality needed to be rediscovered in the 1970s before it became accepted as characteristic of the species.

Bonobos become sexually aroused remarkably easily, and they express this excitement in a variety of mounting positions and genital contacts. Although chimpanzees virtually never adopt face-to-face positions, bonobos do so in one out of three copulations in the wild. Furthermore, the frontal orientation of the bonobo vulva and clitoris strongly suggest that the female genitalia are adapted for this position.