@manzgrande@lilfloo This claim and many others said on social media demonizing dolphins are either A.) Entirely false myths, like what you said. B.) Normal animal behaviors seen throughout nature in thousands of other animals, often exaggerated
@alivecornflake@manzgrande@lilfloo There's really no scientific evidence supporting it in Delphinidae anyway and aggressive mating tactics are quite rare overall in Delphinidae as a whole mainly just seen in a few subpopulations of 1 species out of 38+ total dolphin species. But yes many other animals do the same
@manzgrande@lilfloo This actually doesn't occur. And aggressive mating tactics in dolphins are rare anyway, only really seen in a couple subpopulations of 1 species out of 38+ dolphin species. Btw cats literally do that, mating with kittens, but nobody says anything about cats.
@CondensedGinger Also once scavengers get to a carcass things can get moved around or straight up disappear in some cases. The deer could've also died of natural causes and just got heavily scavenged by some animals, again likely a coyote pack.
@CondensedGinger The largest predatory mammals in Kansas are bobcats and coyotes, both are capable of taking down deer. But if it's in half that could possibly be done by either humans or a large pack of coyotes probably. Although quite rare black bears do sometimes occur in Kansas.
@Hyst3ric4lHyena @EutopianSustain @ive_arc https://t.co/7QB4LjfBi7 from Dr. Gregg himself, he's an expert on dolphin behavior and cognition, he debunks the raping people myth and explains why that term is too anthropomorphic to use to describe animal mating behavior in general
@AllenZhu1384608@Ninja_8004@ive_arc It's just how some animals evolved to mate tbh, aggressive males usually have more offspring. It's nature, our morals and ethics shouldn't really apply to them cuz they're not human
@Popabill420@ive_arc Dolphins are rarely ever a threat to humans unless provoked or under stress. This behavior is due to social isolation and too much human interaction altering natural instincts, it's unnatural. Btw multiple PHD's debunked any rape myths
@Taenia_Strobi @ive_arc Plus dolphin mating behaviour is usually non-aggressive in most dolphin species. Only bottlenose dolphins of Jacksonville + Sarasota Florida and Shark Bay Australia show aggressive behaviors when mating. Thats 1 out of roughly 40 species of dolphin btw