# do dolphins have cocks?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-dolphins-have-cocks/78450>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 28, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-dolphins-have-cocks/78450 "2001-08-28T01:23:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-dolphins-have-cocks/78450/21 "2001-08-28T05:20:35Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Olentzero \*  
> \*\*[hijack]
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> Seeing the nick “Johnson” and the title “Member” right next to each other in a thread about animal genitalia is _very_ disconcerting.
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> [/hijack] \*\*

Seeing the words “nick” and “member” together is very disconcerting, too. 🙂 Shades of JDT there, man.

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**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-dolphins-have-cocks/78450/22 "2001-08-28T09:39:47Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Tequila Mockingbird \*  
> Well, if male birds don’t have a penis, I’d hate to imagine what those lorikeets I saw at the zoo were doing!

A lot of birds don’t have penises, which is one reason why telling boy birds from female birds can be difficult. Parrots, for instance, don’t have 'em, the male and female just basically rub butts together (my lovebirds would go at it for 20-30 minutes at a time, severa times a day) with the cloacal openings pressed more or less together.

Other birds - waterfowl, for instance, and barnyard fowl, do have them. Well, chickens have _something_ down there, which is why “chicken sexers” flip the little yellow fluff balls over to separate future hens from future roosters but since I have not examined the genetalia of yardbirds up close I can’t speak from direct observation.

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**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2001, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-dolphins-have-cocks/78450/23 "2001-08-28T13:50:10Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Zoggie \*  
> \*\*Shades of JDT there, man. \*\*

Ssssh! I was just getting over being ashamed of being uncut because of that guy. Don’t bring it all back, I beg of you.

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