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Review: The Sex Lives of Animals

By Amanda Gefter

27 August 2008

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GLANCING around at the images surrounding me – a deer threesome, a pair of West Indian manatees in a “69” position – I can’t help but feel like a bit of a pervert. Then I see flamingos that prefer to have sex while others are watching, a panda watching porn and a homosexual, necrophiliac mallard, and I think, these are the perverts. Only they’re not really, because whatever sexual activities these animals engage in are, by definition, natural.

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