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You do not want to google shark “mating” because it is straight up 100% gang rape. 

When male nurse sharks want to mate, they bite the female on her pectoral fin to hold her into position. Scientists have observed female sharks avoiding males by swimming to shallow water and burying their pectoral fin in the sand

Same for bottlenose dolphins, who form “rape gangs” and will gang rape a single female or a young male if no females are around.

See also the insect world and the lovely phrase “traumatic insemination” - where the male of the species has evolved to bypass anything like a vagina and instead puncture directly the abdomen of the female!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_insemination

And ducks! Mallard duck’s males and females pair off normally, but the males that don’t manage to get mates form gangs and use their combined strength to go after lone females. It’s known to biologists as a ‘rape flight’. Often, a gang of three or four of them attacks a female duck, two holding her down while one enters her, sometimes resulting in her injury or death.

You’ll notice that so many of these actually use the word “rape” when describing the gangs? Scientists know. 

Also, Antelope will straight up LIE to keep females around and in the herd so they can mate with them. 
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/05/sexual-deception-detected-where-the-antelopes-play/1

Basically the male of the species is beholden to their balls, and I’m starting to think testosterone is a disease.

Jesus Christ

Dear god you’ve sent me down a rabbit hole…

Male scorpion flies prefer to provide their potential mates with food gifts of dead insects. But if there are absolutely none, the male rapes the female. Male scorpion flies have a so-called notal organ, a clamp that serves to keep unwilling females in a mating position. The males that resort to rape are usually smaller and less symmetric than males who woo the females with gifts. However, experiments reveal that all males will rape in an environment in which nuptial gifts are scarce. Which means, that scorpion flies possess the brain to choose both gifts and rape as mating tactics. Rape yields very little reproductive success and the females fight so vigorously, twisting their bodies in order to avoid contact so it’s basically making the best of a bad job. In sagebrush and camel crickets, rape is the work of the ultimate loser on the edge of society, small and deformed, he can spread his genes in no other way.

This article a wealth of animal rape stories… 

The white fronted bee-eater is a small, colourful bird who lives in colonies in Africa. Males and females form stable pairs who nest together year after year. But rape in the community is common, and if a female leaves her nest alone she will be chased by 1-12 male birds who, if they succeed in pinning her to the ground, jump on her at once and try to mate with her.  In fact, when a female leaves the nest she whistles loudly, so that if her husband is nearby he can escort her.  No bachelors form part of the rape posse- all married males on the prowl.

…I’m gonna go hug my fixed doggos that only hump for fun… 

Source:
https://kashmirobserver.net/2017/heads-and-tails/rape-happens-animal-kingdom-too-13741

I think male dolphins also murder baby dolphins because females won’t copulate while caring for an infant.
There was at least one animal documentary about apes that made me disgusted by the amount of rape (of adult females as well as infants of either sex) but I don’t recall the species.
I’m sorry to cat lovers (such as I) about this one: penetration is painful for females because the males’ penises have bones and are “thorny” so the males hold them down using their teeth as they do it.

https://trustyourperceptions.wordpress.com/2016/05/15/semen-mens-chemical-war-against-women-part-v-maleness-in-context-cross-species-sperm-transfer-tactics-reveals-what-maleness-is/

I recommend reading this for anyone interested in learning about the evolution of violent and cruel tactics of insemination across males of many species

Prairie dog mothers regularly kill and eat the children of their sisters, typically in a prairie dog extended family there will be only one female who is “allowed” to rear children, all the other children will be eaten.

Occasionally a “rogue worker” bee will rebel against the reproductive dictatorship of the hive. Her sisters will quickly kill her and devour her eggs.

The majority of never-pregant female rats will kill and eat any rat babies they encounter, and the working theory is that it’s because they taste good. 

A closer look at even Jane Goodall’s romanticized chimp mothers showed that female chimps live in a social system of vicious and inherited hierarchy so strict that the social status of a chimp’s grandmother affects her survival. 

The myth that males of the species are inherently violent and the female is innately gentle and maternal is a  lie created by men to justify their violence.

The reason we “know” more about examples of male violence across species and in early humans is that male scientists ignored or suppressed evidence of female animals behaving in ways that they thought was “unladylike”. 

(The Woman who Never Evolved is a really great and accessible book on this topic)