"Rhino sex is always violent. It looks like two Jeeps having an argument," she said. "Once copulation begins, they're locked together for well over an hour."
Posted on 02/15/2006 9:26:06 AM PST by presidio9
It was time for the annual Valentine's Day sex tour at the San Francisco Zoo, but none of the permanent residents got the memo. As human voyeurs learned about the torrid world of amorous beasts, most of the animals barely glanced at each other.
"The wind seems to unnerve them," said Jane Tollini, inventor of the tour that has been copied by zoos throughout North America. "And they had a busy weekend."
They did indeed. Tollini, former penguin keeper at the zoo, led excursions Saturday and Sunday and will do the same this weekend. She came up with the idea 17 years ago.
"I like to watch," Tollini said.
Even though there wasn't much to see on Tuesday, there was plenty to hear about.
"This is the most tacky, tasteless, smutty, down-in-the-gutter tour ever created," Tollini told the 80 or so adults who piled onto two trams and devoted three hours to tales of fornicating felines and hermaphrodite ostriches.
"Animals do everything we do, but they do it a little differently," said Tollini, draped in a pink boa with pink hearts. "The only thing I couldn't find was cross-dressing."
Tollini spent 24 years in the zoo before retiring last year. She's seen bondage, polygamy, group sex, homosexuality, sex with inanimate objects and pedophilia.
Starting off with penises, Tollini moved on to vaginas, including ones "so large you could lose your family and your SUV in them," and to cloacas, those "multipurpose holes" useful for urination, defecation, egg-laying and sex.
Tollini said that cassowaries are the most dangerous animals at the zoo but have "fabulous" sex. The crowd had to take it on faith -- its resident birds, Slash and Hazard, were keeping a low profile.
The black rhinos were similarly uninclined.
"Rhino sex is always violent.
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"Rhino sex is always violent. It looks like two Jeeps having an argument," she said. "Once copulation begins, they're locked together for well over an hour."
Really? Tying each other up? These are some dexterous animals.
I sure hate it when that happens to me.
They've banned Morford from this, haven't they?
Animal Porn
...brining entirely new meaning to the expression "monkey see, monkey do."
I could have gone my whole life without knowing the details of Lincoln Chaffee's sex life...
Someone should report this creep to PETA -- exploiting animals' sexuality and privacy without their permission.
Idisarthur, back in college on boring Saturday afternoons(early 90's), we would drink beer and watch the "Trials of Life" videos a biology major had been given for Christmas in her dorm room. There is a video in the set of all sorts of animal fights, etc. It was just awful and most of us gals couldn't sit through it, including me. Anyway, it's out there. I think they released it on DVD in the late 90's.
ClearCase_guy, see paragraph above. There was also a mating and reproduction video that we gals watched and you know what? It was graphic, bizarre, and very informative. And last I checked, all of us gals who watched are now married (to men!) and either have kids or have kids on the way. Wanting to know about the sexual habits of animals is not perverse and it's not part of the gay agenda or the bestiality agenda. It's called learning. My 2 cents.
Exactly.
HELLO WE ARE NOT ANIMALS!
I sometimes wish I would have studied Biology or Zoology... Math/Computing/Stats won me over.
I remember "The Trials of Life"! It was first aired in 1993. What a great series!
I worry about zoo animal wranglers..
" "I like to watch," Tollini said. "
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He instructs the primates on poop slinging. |
No problem. I'll bet eBay or Amazon has the whole set available.
Hey, I wish I studied more bio and zoology myself. Instead I majored in English so go figure...
I know. They were awesome. They ran those commercials all the time on tv for the videos so when someone in the dorm actually got a set, we were so excited...and then grossed out...and then surprised...and then shocked...and then...(you get the idea)
Really amazing stuff.
I was staying with my friend Jim the Freak at the time, and he had somewhere to go the day the series aired. He didn't want me messing up his taping of it, so he put a Post-It on the remote that said "No changin' the channel."
Then he put one on the TV that said "Watch in the bedroom, not this one."
Then he just got out of hand and put a trail of Post-Its with arrows on them leading me to the bedroom TV, and then he labeled everything in the bathroom in case I needed some reading material or something. He also stickied all the pots and pans, and everything in the pantry.
He went through two pads of Post-Its that morning.
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