Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/04/10/everything-you-ever-needed-to.html
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The things you learn on BB…
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Almost as good as once reading Nat Geographic “for the pictures”.
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That’s not everything. What if I… if somebody needed to know more?
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Dolphins! The Bonobos of the seas! 
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clitori…?
clitoratti…?
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clitoripodes
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I’m guessing when they finally decipher dolphin language it will be a lot of “up, right, right, down more, no, no. . . that’s not it either.”
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Male calves frequently mate with their mothers, and “a lot of the [dolphin] mating we see in the wild is homosexual mating,” she says.
(I’m sure this is what he meant)
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really though, dominance hierarchies? such a weird interpretation of gay dolphin sex.
I guess it could be the case, but I’d suspect they have their own complex model of social order that doesn’t cleanly map on to our primate behavior.
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Those dolphin motherfuckers.
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Any fans of David Brin’s Startide Rising?
It is not replete with graphic dolphin sex, though dolphin sex features with appropriate prominence.
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Clitorides. Just like iris -> irides, or chrysalis, epiglottis, proboscis.
EDIT: pronunciation CLIT-or-IH-days, EER-ih-days, etc.
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Yeah, you’re right, that’s weird. And they might be doing it for pleasure as much as for some social ordering reason.
The ocean doesn’t seem like it would get the latest movies.
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At least they’re easy to find: They’re in the ocean, usually.
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Before this article I did not realize I needed to know anything about dolphin clitorises.
Women’s clitorises, I am not saying.
In any case, one can never know too much.
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You know I had to.
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