# Times that you have seen animals mating "in the wild." **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 1, 2001, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/times-that-you-have-seen-animals-mating-in-the-wild/70862 "2001-07-01T18:05:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/times-that-you-have-seen-animals-mating-in-the-wild/70862/21 "2001-07-01T23:06:54Z")
Manual of Ornithology [Proctor & Lynch] - p.224 **The Female Urogenital System** > [@](#): > > The female reproductive system in birds is reduced in most species to a left ovary and oviduct…There are exceptions to this unilateral development, notably in birds of prey, which in some females develop both right and left ovaries and oviducts, though it is not known if the right ovary is functional in all cases…This unilateral reduction of the female reporductive system is thought to have two major benefits: it reduces the female’s body and prevents the potential problem of simulatneously carrying two large, fragile eggs within the abdominal cavity. The ovary enlarges tremendously as breeding season approaches, growing from ten to as much as fifty times its nonbreeding weight. (Sorry, forgot the quote delineators in the other post!) I’m still searching for the other book for a quote, but from what I remmber from studies, the outer shell develops and is solid by the time it passes though the females reproductory system (this is where it also gets its color and speckling). The sperm must be in the female’s reproductory system by the time the ovum/ova is/are released, otherwise the sperm cannot penetrate the shell. This allows development (if fetilization was successful) outside the female’s body and allows her to fly, run or swim unencumbered during the several days/weeks needed for fetal development. One other point is that the cloacal matching must be darned precise for transfer. There are several birds in our rehab aviary that attempt to mate, but cannot get a good contact - one or both are missing a wing (accident or deliberate human injury), and perching and balance is a little precarious. As to the omelettes, what you are eating for breakfast are unfertilized eggs. Occasionally, one in development will slip by the quality control at the farm, hence the half-formed fetus that lands in your frying pan. What you are probably thinking of, external fertilization-wise, are several species of fish (except some sharks) and frogs/toads, where the females lays up to thousands of eggs, and the male stops by later to fertilize them, after the female is finished. Any ichthyologists or (latin word for amphibians)ologists) on the boards to clarify this? ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2001, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/times-that-you-have-seen-animals-mating-in-the-wild/70862/22 "2001-07-01T23:16:55Z")
> [@](#): > > Singapore’s Worst Job Revealed. > > by Kway Png > > Last week, the Singapore Zoological Gardens announced that they were setting up a bank containing sperm samples of all the wildlife under their supervision. At the same time, zoo sperm bank worker Mohd. Binatang bin Goncang won a competition for “Worst Job in Singapore”. > > Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS), which runs the Singapore Zoo, the Jurong Bird Park and the Night Safari, has set up a bank of sperm and animal tissue in order to help preserve species. And It is Mr. Binatang’s job to collect the sperm. > > “Teruk, sial,” said Mr. Binatang as we followed him on his rounds at 4 a.m. “We start so early in the morning because a lot of the animals have ‘morning glory’ when they wake up, and it’s easier to collect the sperm.” > > Wearing rubber gloves and carrying a cooler box filled with ice and tupperware, Mr. Binatang, 25, told us that he’d just graduated from Singapore Polytechnic with a diploma in life sciences. He liked nature and animals, and thought that the Singapore Zoo would be the perfect place to work. > > “I never thought I’d be giving an orangutan a hand job every morning,” he said somewhat ruefully. “And Ah Meng is the worst. He expects to be kissed first.” > > As we approached the orangutan enclosure, we saw the Zoo’s most famous resident lying casually on his back, hands behind his head, and sporting a huge erection. Mr. Binatang sighed, and applied massage oil onto his gloves. We lingered outside the enclosure as Mr. Binatang entered and knelt before Ah Meng. About 2 minutes’ worth of squelching noises could be heard before Mr.Binatang emerged again. > > “So fast?” we asked. > > “He’s shy with you strangers looking on and can’t perform today,” said Mr. Binatang with a grin, before silently mouthing “thank you” to us. > > We next moved towards the tiger enclosure. The big cats were sprawled lazily on the grass verge as Mr. Binatang approached. > > “Sayang, sayang,” said Mr. Binatang in a somewhat half-hearted manner as he put on a fresh set of gloves and entered the enclosure. “Here, kitty, kitty, kitty…” > > Moments later, Mr. Binatang emerged with several tupperwares full of viscous fluid. “Is that…?” we asked gingerly. > > “It’s not soya bean,” replied Mr.Binatang grimly. > > “Isn’t it dangerous?” we asked. > > Mr. Binatang was silent for a while. “They know I’m not there as an enemy,” he finally said, a glazed, faraway look in his eyes. We fought the urge to say, “Give that man a tiger.” Mr. Binatang then worked his way round the zoo, carrying out his duties with the tapirs, the rhinoceros, giraffe and the gorillas, amongst others. > > “Each animal is different,” he said, removing his gloves, now speckled with traces of polar bear spunk. “The polar bears come rather quickly, because they’re not used to my warm hands on their cold organs. The chimpanzees always want to be hugged afterwards. The elephant is the most teruk because of the size of its thing… sometimes I have to use both my arms to tug on it. I feel like the bell ringer in a cathedral. Like Quasimodo or something. And god, when he comes, it’s like being sprayed by hot glue.” > > Mr. Binatang finished his rounds at 3 pm in the afternoon. The cooler box was full of neatly-labeled tupperwares of animal semen, which were duly delivered tothe WRS office. > > “I don’t know how long I’m going to stay in this job,” said Mr. Binatang, peeling off his overalls. “As you can expect it’s really affecting my sex life. I can’t help it. Each time my wife initiates sex, these ejaculating hippos keep floating through my mind.” > > The WRS acknowledges Mr. Binatang’s difficulties and promises that the semen collection procedure will soon change. But not because of the unpleasantness of the job. “It’s because the animals have gotten too used to Binatang coming over every morning to pull them off,” said deputy assistant director Lai Jee Seow. “Many of them now can’t be bothered to engage in real sex.” Found [here](http://www.snopes2.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=16&t=000187). ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/times-that-you-have-seen-animals-mating-in-the-wild/70862/23 "2001-07-02T00:46:08Z")
Dogs and cats, standard. 🙂 I’ve seen moose mating-looks very painful in more ways than one and they are LOUD. Once in Florida I saw dolphins mate. It’s actually very quick but there is a lot of “foreplay” involved. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/times-that-you-have-seen-animals-mating-in-the-wild/70862/24 "2001-07-02T02:08:49Z")
Thank you, **screech**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/times-that-you-have-seen-animals-mating-in-the-wild/70862/25 "2001-07-02T04:19:19Z")
I saw cows. On Valentine’s Day. It was scary. I didn’t think it was mating season for cows, so I was a little confused. (Insert South Park dialouge) Hey, that cow is trying to jump over that other cow! Oh, he’s stuck! Wait… It was traumatic. ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/times-that-you-have-seen-animals-mating-in-the-wild/70862/26 "2001-07-02T08:17:05Z")
I’m almost positive I saw a couple of cows going at it on the side of I-10 in Florida. We were going kinda fast though, so I couldn’t be certain. My best friend’s dog used to hump everything in sight, from other dogs, to my leg, to the couch. He was a horny little thing… And I swear to god my cat used to masterbate himself to sleep at night…it was so bizarre to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Pyrrho12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@Pyrrho12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyrrho12)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/times-that-you-have-seen-animals-mating-in-the-wild/70862/27 "2001-07-02T13:24:50Z")
I’ve seen my rabbit Kanchongie engage in vigorous humping with all kinds of things. She’s a female bunny, but that doesn’t seem to slow her down… She’s humped soda bottles, a rolled up newspaper, various stuffed toys and pillows, my foot, my other rabbit Kiki… oddly enough, she seems to have a definite prefrence for mounting Kiki’s face. Kiki is about twice as big as Kanchongie, and reacts to being mounted by chasing her around the apartment biting at extremities. I have considered the possibility that Kanchongie is leading some type of alternative lifestyle. ---
**Author:** ![Ivorybill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ee59a6/32.png) [@Ivorybill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivorybill)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/times-that-you-have-seen-animals-mating-in-the-wild/70862/28 "2001-07-02T14:02:55Z")
Bald eagles, (which, IIRC, do it while free falling from high altitude - - right **Screech**?), while canoeing in the Everglades one spring break. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/times-that-you-have-seen-animals-mating-in-the-wild/70862/29 "2001-07-02T14:24:33Z")
At a school field trip in the 60’s at the Buffalo Children’s Zoo there was a tapir which enjoyed carrots. Feed it a carrot, watch it have an erection. This was all well and fine, only tapirs have very short legs and very long erections. To make a long story (or erection) short, it kept tripping and stepping on itself until it lost its erection. Upon which we would feed it more carrots. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/times-that-you-have-seen-animals-mating-in-the-wild/70862/30 "2001-07-02T14:28:37Z")
I was raised on a farm. Sometimes we had a bull. 'Nuff said 😃 ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/times-that-you-have-seen-animals-mating-in-the-wild/70862/31 "2001-07-02T14:58:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ivorybill \* > **Bald eagles, (which, IIRC, do it while free falling from high altitude - - right Screech?)…** Um, no. Bald Eagles do it on tree branches like most other birds that fly. This is a common misconcerption. What you were seeing was the courtship or re-bonding ritual. Absolutely amazing: both the male and female will fly to great heights, lock talons and freefall plunge to the earth in a series of cartwheels over and over and over until they get frighteningly near the ground. They suddenly release talons, break apart and fly away. Repeat many, many times. This re-establishes the pair bond (kind of like trusting your partner), and seems like a helluva lot of fun. And to clear up one other misconception, by the way: both the male and female mature adult Bald Eagle have the white head and white tail. As with most birds of prey, excepting Burrowing Owls, the female is the larger bird of the two sexes. When looking at a pair of Bald Eagles side by side (assuming it is a mated pair, male and female), the female is the larger of the two, outweighing the male by about 1/3 (usually about 2-3 pounds). Damn, you got to see that live! I’ve only seen one badly filmed video. ---
**Author:** ![Ivorybill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ee59a6/32.png) [@Ivorybill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ivorybill)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/times-that-you-have-seen-animals-mating-in-the-wild/70862/32 "2001-07-02T16:08:39Z")
> [@](#): > > What you were seeing was the courtship or re-bonding ritual. Absolutely amazing: both the male and female will fly to great heights, lock talons and freefall plunge to the earth in a series of cartwheels over and over and over until they get frighteningly near the ground. They suddenly release talons, break apart and fly away. Repeat many, many times. This re-establishes the pair bond (kind of like trusting your partner), and seems like a helluva lot of fun. That’s it exactly. To be honest, I did have a bit of difficulty envisioning that there could be any extracurricular activities associated with their behavior, but the trip leader was rather insistent on the matter. Thanks for stamping out some ignorance. And you’re right: it is an absolutely amazing sight. This pair would spin and fall, seemingly forever, then let go, recover, catch a thermal, and ride it up while circling in opposite directions (so as to pass each other twice in each complete ascending revolution) and do it again. We tired of watching them (needed to paddle on to camp) before they tired of bonding. Fun! ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/times-that-you-have-seen-animals-mating-in-the-wild/70862/33 "2001-07-02T18:00:02Z")
Lots of animals, lots of times. Dogs, cats, hamsters, birds, ducks, cows, horses, all sorts of insects and other critters. ---
**Author:** ![Sophie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@Sophie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophie)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/times-that-you-have-seen-animals-mating-in-the-wild/70862/34 "2001-07-02T18:07:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > \*\*My husband and I were walking thru the neighborhood a week or so ago and we saw a couple of dogs. The bitch was chained in her yard and we heard a gawd-awful yelp when the scruffy mongrel mounted her. Then he fell off - still attached. She kept yelping as she dragged him around on his back. It went on at least 10 minutes that we witnessed, walking down the street, then back up again. I’m assumed he eventually disengaged. > > I wish I’d had a camera… truly bizarre… \*\* HEY…this just happened to me the other day. Actually, it was me, my mom and my sister driving through my neighborhood, and the dogs were mutts, but one was mostly lab and one was mostly terrier. It was very gross and I’m guessing painful. For all you sickos, the mostly-lab was the boy dog. ---
**Author:** ![Rhetoric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rhetoric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhetoric)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/times-that-you-have-seen-animals-mating-in-the-wild/70862/35 "2001-07-02T19:18:34Z")
My first year in college was spent as an Animal Science major. This meant a lot of time on the farm. Anyway, the most bazaar experience I remember was the day that our instructor was demonstrating how to retrieve semen from a boar. I’m not talking wild boar here, just a regular old male pig. There was an object about the size of a pig in a small area in one of the large barns. Because of the educational environment, there was standing room all around the outside of this area. The object was apparently sprayed with something that resembles a sow’s “give it to me” hormone. He let the boar in and sure enough, after a minute, he mounted this thing and started bangin away. He had a penis that was probably 8 inches long and pencil thin. I know you were interested. My instructor (with gloves on), grasped the end of the penis and pointed it into a jar. As we watched, the boar filled up the whole damn jar! They can ejaculate for 10 minutes and have as much as 12 ounces of semen! Anyone else a little jealous? ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/times-that-you-have-seen-animals-mating-in-the-wild/70862/36 "2001-07-02T22:06:15Z")
Well, living in the rural South gives a young man a lot of opportunities to witness such things. My grandfather had a small farm with a few animals, and some of his friends had full-scale dairy or equestrian operations. It becomes just another fact of life for most rural residents. But I’ll try and make my descriptions as prurient as possible for all y’all “city pree-verts.” In increasing order of approximate size: Cats: Very entertaining. One female, at least a dozen males in a circle around her. She’s clearly in heat, yet spits and claws at any male who approaches her. Finally, one sneaks in from behind while she’s distracted by another and he bites her on the back of the neck and mounts. She’s submissive (but vocal) until he finishes and lets go, and then he nearly gets his face taken off upon retreat. Repeat until the males lose interest or something else breaks it up. Dogs: Sometimes they get really silly looks on their faces, but otherwise boring, until the end – when they want to detach but can’t. That’s when the spectator fun begins! Actually I’ve seen more dogs runnning around attached at the genitals than I have actually seen humping. Goats: Unaltered billygoats are smelly, nasty, aggressive animals whose sexual appetites are exceeded only by their gastronomical ones. This fact has been described on these boards before. (Searches are very slow now, but I know a thread exists.) Their penises are much like dogs’, except their urethra sticks way out and waves around: extremely disturbing to witness. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a goat try to mount another goat. My grandfather once shot a Billy in the testes after he tried to mount my grandma when she was working in the garden. (Yes, he seperated the goat from grandma before firing.) The goat died the next day. Pigs: Never seen it - but I have seen farmers inseminating the sows. Ladies, imagine being trapped on your hands and knees in a steel cage so small and narrow you can’t even turn around or get your arms to your sides. Now imagine a farmer with a big stainless steel syringe with a long rubber tip in place of a needle. Isn’t that romantic? No? Well apparently the sows don’t think so either - it seems they don’t let them mate naturally because the sows attack the boars. I don’t blame them. (Then there’s the retarded farmhand who was found dead and pantsless in a sow’s pen one glorious morning. But that’s another thread.) Cattle: Just gross. The bull’s penis appears to emerge from where you would expect to find his navel. It nearly drags the ground, and when the act of coitus is over and _el toro_ disengages: yecch, it’s a huge, stringy slimy mess. It’s absolutely grotesque. But for preadolescent farm boys, it’s a mandatory spectator sport. Otherwise you’re branded as timid. Horses: Not as messy as cattle, but similar. And the horse is a more attractive animal than a cow. (IMO anything is more attractive than a cow.) The stallion’s equipment definitely leaves the adolsecent human male spectator feeling completely inadequate. For life. And although frogs and turtles and other wildlife get it on regularly in the wilds of SC, it’s seldom more notable than seeing one frog sitting on top of another. So, similarly, I’m not even going to mention insects… other than the fact that when I can step on a mating pair, I get to claim I’ve killed millions. Hooray! OK - I will actually describe the bugs I saw once in Texas, though for their sheer size and loathesomeness. They were absolutely huge beetle-like things, but bright green with yellow spots, and elongated bodies, and long stout antennae. Just hideous. And they were mating. So I stepped on 'em. \ Millions gone! I’ll give someone else the chance to describe the habits of Florida’s “Love Bugs.” ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/times-that-you-have-seen-animals-mating-in-the-wild/70862/37 "2001-07-02T22:16:38Z")
I just saw a butterfly gang-bang. Sure, we think of butterflies as these sweet innocent little things, but no; they hide a fountain of lust that flows with the force of Niagara Falls! The sex drive of your average butterfly would put even **ChiefScott** to shame. These two butterflies were doing a mating danne, and then they did their little thing on the ground and the male flew away, and ANOTHER male came along andh opped on top of the female before she flew away. He finished, she started to fly away, and a THIRD male came along and tupped her. Butterfly gang-bang! ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2001, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/times-that-you-have-seen-animals-mating-in-the-wild/70862/38 "2001-07-02T22:20:34Z")
When I was a kid my parents decided to breed our female Collie. the lady brought over the stud, and let them get to work. They seemed to like each other, but every time the male tried to mount, she would sit down. Finally the breeder went out, and held our dog up, so he could get it done. The, in one of the most painful looking thing I have ever seen, still ingaged, he jumped off, and turned around so that they were butt to butt while he injected. Later in grad school, I was living in a trailer that was close to county fair ground, and I guess lots of the show rabbits must have escaped over the years, becuase there were dozens of these really pretty and exotic rabbits living under my trailer. Every summer night I was treated to a massive rabbit orgy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/times-that-you-have-seen-animals-mating-in-the-wild/70862.md?page=1)