Sorry to say, but you've been duped. I checked out the wikipedia article you linked to. Shocking reading, surely. But then I examined the two references to the

Sorry to say, but you've been duped. I checked out the wikipedia article you linked to. Shocking reading, surely. But then I examined the two references to the dolphin 'rapes'... The latter reference was this article: http://www.altx.com/io/zoo.html http://www.altx.com/io/zoo.html - see any mention of 'dolphin'? Me neither. I edited it out of the wikipedia article. The former reference only went as far as this: 'although what happens once the males have herded in a female, and whether she goes for one or all of them, is not yet known: the researchers have yet to witness a dolphin copulation.' This is not rape. Read the rest of the article. Fascinating, if only for the realization that we (humans) really don't understand the subtleties of being a dolphin. So, let's just say the issue is indeterminate.