Not your mama's 'birds and bees' (SF Zoo's animal sex tour tells who is gay, who likes it rough)

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Wednesday, February 15, 2006 | Patricia Yollin, Chronicle Staff Writer

[presidio9]

"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."

[MEGoody]

Oh good grief. I guess the SF zoo is getting desperate for money, so they are trying to appeal to the perverts.

[fortunecookie]

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.

Really? Tying each other up? These are some dexterous animals.

[Billthedrill]

He takes that big unit out and humps those logs," Tollini said. "But if you get a splinter in there, you'll find out who your friends are."

I sure hate it when that happens to me.

[RichInOC]

They've banned Morford from this, haven't they?

[quadrant]

Apparently, this person does not realize that animals do commit these acts because they have no moral sense, which is a gift God gave humans.

[RockinRight]

They're gonna write a book about this:

Animal Porn

[RichInOC]

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.

...brining entirely new meaning to the expression "monkey see, monkey do."

[RockinRight]

"Rhino sex is always violent.

I could have gone my whole life without knowing the details of Lincoln Chaffee's sex life...

[California Patriot]

Someone should report this creep to PETA -- exploiting animals' sexuality and privacy without their permission.

[coop71]

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.

[Eighth Street]

Exactly.

HELLO WE ARE NOT ANIMALS!

[Idisarthur]

Hey Thanks, that was very informative, I appreciate it.

I sometimes wish I would have studied Biology or Zoology... Math/Computing/Stats won me over.

[Slings and Arrows]

Is Morford part of the exhibit?

[Xenalyte]

I remember "The Trials of Life"! It was first aired in 1993. What a great series!

[Darksheare]

I worry about zoo animal wranglers..

" "I like to watch," Tollini said. "

[glock rocks]

Is Morford part of the exhibit?

He instructs the primates on poop slinging.

[coop71]

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...

[coop71]

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.

[Xenalyte]

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.