What Is Consensual in Dolphins?

What is consensual is a weird question in the animal kingdom because you have like forced copulation like your otters. The vagina of a dolphin depending on species is pretty convoluted it's almost weirdly corkscrewy shaped with all these weird cavities and folds. A female might not want to mate with three males that are coming at her but she will end up mating with them. She can sort of twist her body and shift the vagina around so that the sperm ends uplike in a fold somewhere. In that sense she might be cool with mating with a bunch of these dudes even though she doesn't necessarily want them all to be the dad.

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