#BadOceanComics
Bottlenose dolphins are crazy: the Christmas party is here (adult content)
Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) can be considered perverts and one of the craziest creatures in the ocean.
Usually, they are the image of what's a dolphin in the common vision of people. They are cute, lovely animals you can find in aquariums, playing, jumping, and entertaining the public. They are the clowns (in a nice way) of the sea.
But the reality is never as expected. Reality is cruel. Reality is much worse than what we can think of.
In fact, bottlenose dolphins have been discovered to be drug-addicted. Actually, not all populations share the same vices but it has been reported multiple times. Different individuals have been caught playing with puffer fishes to get high on purpose. Indeed, pufferfishes are part of the family Tetraodontidae, in which the members share the possession of a highly poisonous toxin, the tetrodotoxin. See the funny footage from the BBC below.
But this is not the only weird behaviour they can adopt. Bottlenose dolphins have been reported using different objects and animals, including dead fish and decapitated fish, as a way of giving pleasure to themselves. This applies to both males and females, the latter discovered recently to have also a functional clitoris just as humans do.
______________________________ References
Brennan, P. L., Cowart, J. R., & Orbach, D. N. (2022). Evidence of a functional clitoris in dolphins. Current Biology, 32(1), R24-R26.
Muraco, H., & Kuczaj, S. A. (2015). II.(2015). Conceptive estrus behavior in three bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2(1), 30-48.
