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To: jbe who wrote (35128)	4/18/1999 3:41:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Mammalian rape is, I believe, quite common. Australian dolphins stand accused of gang rape. The tail's common use to to block entry to the vagina by a nonconsenting female. Most males have immense difficulty entering a female without consent. For the most part, except in man and other primates the use of force avails nothing.

To: jbe who wrote (35128)	4/18/1999 4:06:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I have read that the world record holding lion engaged in sex over three hundred times in less than two days. The first few dozen contacts may have been raped, but I have my doubts about the rest. The idea that a male lion on taking over the pride assassinates his predecessors' cubs to protect his own progeny's primacy is unbearably romantic. That such infanticide occurs may be true, but I cannot believe that a lion understands the reproductive process enough to engage in such rational thought. This behavior (if it exists) has like been inherited. Any group of powerful predators that restricts its population is more likely to survive than one that produces far more young than the environment can support. Wolves kill the litters of any non-alpha female. The omega female does not protect her cubs, a violation of the wolf-code (for alphas) so horrible as to defy belief. The law of the pack is only the alpha breeds and everyone else supports that alpha-litter. As Kipling pointed out, the wolf must obey the law of the pack or perish.