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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThis post was inspired by Kali's "Whale-Watching" and In_The_Wind's "La Petite Mort" threads.
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"But, Honey... it's naturelle!!!"
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Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)Are you sure he's just gonna lay there?
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)They aren't very petite. [img][/img]
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)Can you even imagine it?
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Are you trying to lead me into trouble [img][/img]
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)[img][/img]
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)In_The_Wind
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OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)Kali
(55,019 posts)I know it is the lounge and all, but that actually is something I hadn't seen in my bit of searching about their ecology and behavior.
MiddleFingerMom
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Funny account of a grey whale "orgy" at the link -- and several sources cited multiple mates if not a legend
of bromantic assistance.
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"In 2009 I watched a single female and a single male speeding around Laguna Ojo de Liebre in the
preliminary fast swimming stages of their courtship. They were joined along the way by another
solo whale. Then 5 minutes later another whale joined. Then that group of four whales (I do not
know how many males and females) swam through an area of the lagoon where a group of 3 were
engaged in courtship.
Those two groups joined together and the original couple of whales had swelled to 7 whales in a
span of about 15 or 20 minutes. This swarm of mating, racing Gray whales moved across the lagoon
in a northerly direction away from our boat. I asked the boat captain to follow. He did his best, but
when the mating whales are engaged in their fast swimming it is so darned difficult
to follow them.
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http://www.greywhale.com/interest.htm
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Kali
(55,019 posts)first it was two, then three then four altogether. they didn't reallys eem to be pushing each other off, it looked like they were all just rolling around together.
with cattle, the bulls will push competitors off the cows, from what we could observe from the boat (not much) they were all staying quite together. The boatman said una mujer y tres hombres. He would stand up and wave his arms slowly to signal to them - that is how the one male (so he said) came up under the boat for a scratch.
I would love to go back and learn more.