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How Queer Is The Animal Kingdom? with Eliot Schrefer

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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I'm a Little Curious Out Like Ana Dolphin

Dolphins will shove their dicks in the other one's blow hole. They do clack their beaks. One of themlike, puts its beak under their wing, do a sort of a dab move. And it's really, really cute to see. So they'll do this courtship, they'll bond, and the females will raise an egg together. Because it's two females, often they have what's called a supernormal clutch. Mean, they have twice as many eggs that a male female pair would have. These female, female nesting pairs actually produce more offspring for the next generation. More of their genetic code is going into the next generation of birds.

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