A little post-Valentine's treat : Zoosex tours are tacky, smutty..

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/15/BAGCJH8G1H1.DTL

SAN FRANCISCO
Not your mama's 'birds and bees'
The zoo's X-rated animal sex tour is graphic, kinky

Patricia Yollin, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 15, 2006

It was time for the annual Valentine's Day sex tour at the San Francisco Zoo, but none of the permanent residents got the memo. As human voyeurs learned about the torrid world of amorous beasts, most of the animals barely glanced at each other.

"The wind seems to unnerve them," said Jane Tollini, inventor of the tour that has been copied by zoos throughout North America. "And they had a busy weekend."

They did indeed. Tollini, former penguin keeper at the zoo, led excursions Saturday and Sunday and will do the same this weekend. She came up with the idea 17 years ago.

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"This is the most tacky, tasteless, smutty, down-in-the-gutter tour ever created," Tollini told the 80 or so adults who piled onto two trams and devoted three hours to tales of fornicating felines and hermaphrodite ostriches.

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1. This one deserves a kick back up.

At last check humans were animals too!

[Gormy Cuss]

2. Thanks for the kick.

Here's my favorite quote:

"Rhino sex is always violent. It looks like two Jeeps having an argument..."

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3. My pleasure!

I often am amazed at the crazy things humans say about sex and the animal world response to it.

Once I heard someone say humans (I guess they meant males) have the largest penises in the animal kingdom!

Well a sperm whale has a lingam the size of an entire adult male!

But my heart goes out to the birds. Sometimes a male after waiting for years will finally build a nest for weeks on end, bring prospective females over to check out the new digs and then if she likes the guy they mate for about one second.

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4. Birds? That sounds like my . .. . nevermind

:evilgrin:

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5. The poor tapir. . . .

"We soaked it in a tub of betadine for a couple of weeks," Tollini said. "It turned purple, then black, then it atrophied. Then it fell off, and he ate it."

Youch!