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  2. Sexual coercion among animals - Wikipedia

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    Sexual coercion among animals is the use of violence, threats, harassment, and other tactics to help them forcefully copulate. [1] Such behavior has been compared to sexual assault, including rape, among humans.

  3. Lonely, sexually frustrated dolphin may be attacking swimmers ...

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    A spate of dolphin attacks on swimmers in Japan’s Fukui Prefecture is being blamed on one bottlenose dolphin, who researchers believe may be particularly lonely, having been separated from a pod ...

  4. Orca - Wikipedia

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    Of the very few confirmed attacks on humans by wild orcas, none have been fatal. [189] In one instance, orcas tried to tip ice floes on which a dog team and photographer of the Terra Nova Expedition were standing. [190] The sled dogs' barking is speculated to have sounded enough like seal calls to trigger the orca's hunting curiosity.

  5. Orca attacks - Wikipedia

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    An attack on a strap-toothed whale. Orcas (or killer whales) are large, powerful aquatic apex predators. There have been incidents where orcas were perceived to attack humans in the wild, but such attacks are less common than those by captive orcas. [1] In captivity, there have been several non-fatal and four fatal attacks on humans since the ...

  6. Dolphin - Wikipedia

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    A common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). A dolphin is an aquatic mammal in the clade Odontoceti (toothed whale).Dolphins belong to the families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), Pontoporiidae (the brackish dolphins), and possibly extinct Lipotidae (baiji or Chinese river dolphin).

  7. Tião (dolphin) - Wikipedia

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    Harassment of the dolphin started to take ever more serious forms, from people attempting to restrain the dolphin to have their picture taken with him, to trying to stick an ice cream cone in his blowhole and attempting to pour beer into his mouth. Tião started to resist the harassment and by November 1994, 28 people had been taken to hospital.

  8. Why do sharks attack humans? - AOL

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    Why do sharks attack humans? Faiza Saqib. July 20, 2023 at 3:25 PM ... Seals only go back 23-24 million years and dolphins/porpoises go back twice that, not as much as sharks, but they have shared ...

  9. Captive orcas - Wikipedia

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    Captive killer whale attacks on humans fall mostly into the categories of biting during feeding, ramming in the water, and holding under water. Killer whales biting trainers during feeding or shows is generally the mildest form of attack seen, but can escalate to an animal dragging the trainer underwater and holding them there until they lose ...