# "They're...mating..." **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 20, 2009, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-mating/518299 "2009-11-20T16:45:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-mating/518299/41 "2009-11-22T06:28:15Z")
‘You and me baby we ain’t nothin’ but mammals. So let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel". Bloodhound Gang. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-mating/518299/42 "2009-11-22T07:16:56Z")
> [@Mindfield](#): > > They … _[moan](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eMevDIpZrA)_. He was enjoying that a lot more than she was. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-mating/518299/43 "2009-11-22T08:56:35Z")
> [@Mindfield](#): > > They … _[moan](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eMevDIpZrA)_. > > [sub]I feel dirty now.[/sub] That was both cute and disgusting. 😃 At one point I wanted to tell him to breathe! (He did, he’s fine.) ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-mating/518299/44 "2009-11-22T13:34:44Z")
Yeah, not long ago I was walking the dog and came across two lizards “doing it,” and paused, staring. I tried not to interrupt but they sensed us, broke apart, then fled. I felt like a guilty peeping tom. I’ve seen several of the scenarios already mentioned; as a 10 year old I was having dinner with my family at a fancy restaurant when we observed the mallard gang rape described earlier. My dad tried to be blasé while my mom just wanted to sink into her chair. As a preschool teacher I’ve taken many field trips to the zoo during spring time, and the mating scenes are inevitable: peacocks displaying, turtles mounting etc. The topper was a baboon twosome, where the female was “presenting” with an interested male nearby. Between the interesting body parts and charged atmosphere, there were a few embarrassed parents and teachers fielding pointed kiddie questions. Gerald Durell’s [My Family and Other Animals](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Family_and_Other_Animals) has a laugh out loud description of mating tortoises. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-mating/518299/45 "2009-11-22T13:44:35Z")
Bourbon Street Bar and Grill in Bangkok, a good, long-running place and where we always go for our [Thanksgiving meal](http://www.bourbonstbkk.com/thanksgiving_2009.html), including this year, has a series of photos lining the men’s room, each one showing different animals doing it, everything from snakes to elephants. The wife says there’s nothing like that in the ladies’ room. ---
**Author:** ![lunar\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lunar\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lunar_elf)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-mating/518299/46 "2009-11-22T20:22:41Z")
We saw some gators going at it a few months ago at the zoo. Sounds, splashing… kind of scary actually. My 2.5 year old was a little frightened and asked what they were doing. I said they were playing 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-mating/518299/47 "2009-11-23T14:17:56Z")
I’m THINKING it was in John Sedgwick’s [_The Peaceable Kingdom_](http://www.amazon.com/Peaceable-Kingdom-Year-Americas-Oldest/dp/0688063675), an annal of the Philadelphia Zoo, that there was a chapter about a sex-crazed tortoise who used to mount not just lady tortoises but dome-shaped rocks, overturned buckets and similar almost-tortoise-shaped objects and just thrust and moan for hours. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theyre-mating/518299.md?page=2)