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Media Highlight: Dalhousie researcher explains Dolphin sex

Posted by Communications and Marketing on May 5, 2017 in Media Highlights

Hey, kids: Science can be sexy - super sexy. Just ask Dara Orbach, who has spent seven years studying dolphin vaginas, and her colleagues Patricia Brennan and Diane Kelly, who are some of the foremost experts on animal penises. They recently combined forces to solve the mystery of just how dolphins and other cetaceans do the deed, a task that involved inflating penises, fitting them into vaginal tracts and taking pictures of it all.

Read full story (https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/science/2017/05/02/here-everything-you-ever-wanted-know-about-dolphin-sex/KnmqV7W9nZvJIf7ArQyS3N/story.html