
They’ll even mount sharks and turtles in their search to satisfy their endless libido. Dolphins can mate three times in five minutes – not only with their own, but with other dolphin species. Only later, as I climbed, exhausted, out of the water, was I told by the naturalist on board that in fact my playmates were continually having sex around me. Effortlessly, they turned and swooped between my legs and under my arms. But these animals can detect an object the thinness of a human fingernail at 20 yards. The sleek cetacean torpedos were zipping all around, and at one moment I turned to face two dozen of them charging directly at me. I was once caught up in a superpod of 200 dusky dolphins off the coast of New Zealand.
