Perrin Ireland

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How to Be a Better Human · Why should you care about animal sex? (w/ Perrin Ireland) · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

But we can't outright ask them, what are you using this for?

And particularly with dolphins.

Since they echolocate as a form of oral sex, and since because they echolocate, and echolocation is packaging information in sound, and high frequency sound contains far more information than the range that humans can hear.

And for me to tell you, Chris, something I've seen, something I've felt, something I've experienced, I have to package it up and give it to you in words.

There is a theory that dolphins do not repackage information they share with each other, that they kind of like beam a direct line.

And this is one of the theories that is used to explain stranding behaviors.

If they are not repackaging what they communicate to each other, might they have a concept of the individual that extends between bodies and organisms?

And might that be why they strand because they're moving as one?

But what does that imply about their sex lives?

What is a pod-wide orgasm like, if that's possible?

I'm speculating.

I worked at a dolphin lab.

Right after high school, I worked in the lab of Dr. Lou Herman.

The lab is shut down now, but he kind of inherited John C. Lilly's work on cognition and memory in dolphins.

And there was this hilarious veterinarian and she, it's called a rostrum to genital, the behavior.

But as the interns, we would do 24 hour ops.

So we'd be there in the middle of the night and that's when dolphins are sexually active.

And we'd be writing, you write Ross Jenny.

She'd be like, that's a Ross Jenny.

So I would be like, Ross Jenny, Ross Jenny, Ross Jenny.

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