# Animal Rape
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animal-rape/20633
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 26, 2000, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animal-rape/20633 "2000-05-26T20:29:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Turpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turpentine)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animal-rape/20633/1 "2000-05-26T20:29:46Z")
I seem to remember watching a documentary in which a gang of male dolphins chase down and rape a female dolphin.
How many other species force sex upon the females?
Are there ever any males of the species that get raped?
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### Author:  [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animal-rape/20633/2 "2000-05-26T20:33:52Z")
The closest animal I can think of that has rape of a male is the praying mantis. Maybe not rape per se, but he sure gets screwed!
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### Author:  [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animal-rape/20633/3 "2000-05-26T20:54:37Z")
We were just talking about this
[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=16057](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=16057)
It does mention the dolphin incident.
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animal-rape/20633/4 "2000-05-26T20:54:52Z")
You may be interested in reading a discussion on the same subject in this same forum, a few weeks ago:
[Is Homo Sapiens the only specie that rapes? (27 replies)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=16057)
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### Author:  [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animal-rape/20633/5 "2000-05-26T20:55:57Z")
Too slow Arnold.
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animal-rape/20633/6 "2000-05-26T21:26:04Z")
LanceTurbo, is that why you have Turbo in your name?
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### Author:  [@Jois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jois)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2000, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animal-rape/20633/7 "2000-05-26T23:36:59Z")
Lance Turbo’s site - see Fillet’s this page is exceptional. What if all those behaviors are part of our genetic heritage and culture in our fellow primates and ourselves determines which behavior we are raised to follow?