Editing Animal sexual behaviour (section)

===Necrophilia===
[[Necrophilia]] in animals is where a living animal engages in a sexual act with a dead animal. In one of the most well-known examples, [[Kees Moeliker]] of the [[Rotterdam]] Natural History Museum, [[Netherlands]] observed sexual activities<ref>C.W. Moeliker.  [http://www.nmr.nl/nmr/binary/retrieveFile?instanceid=16&itemid=2574&style=home The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard] (page 243-247)</ref> outside his office between a live [[duck]] and a dead one. Two male mallards which Moeliker believed were engaged in rape flight, a common motif in duck sexual behaviour, collided with his window. "When one died the other one just went for it and didn't get any negative feedback—well, didn't get any feedback," according to Moeliker, who described the event as "homosexual necrophilia." The case was reported scientifically in Deinsea 8-2001, along with photos.<ref>''DEINSEA'' [http://www.nmr.nl/nmr/pages/showPage.do?instanceid=16&itemid=1466&style=default states on its website]: ''"DEINSEA publishes original papers and short communications dealing with zoology, paleontology and (urban) ecology. Contributions that are entirely or partly based on material from the collection of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam (coll. NMR) and/or that are the result of research by NMR staff, have priority."'' The Mallard paper and photographs are [http://www.nmr.nl/nmr/pages/showPage.do?instanceid=16&itemid=1930&style=default available online] as a summary and also the paper [http://www.nmr.nl/nmr/binary/retrieveFile?instanceid=16&itemid=2574&style=home is available] in PDF format.<br />See also: {{cite news|url=http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,1432991,00.html|title=Necrophilia among ducks ruffles research feathers|date=[[2005-03-08]]|publisher=[[The Guardian]]|first=Donald|last=MacLeod|accessdate=2006-04-05}}</ref>, and earned Moeliker an [[Ig Nobel Prize]] in biology, awarded for humorous research.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,1432991,00.html|title=Necrophilia among ducks ruffles research feathers|date=[[2005-03-08]]|publisher=[[The Guardian]]|first=Donald|last=MacLeod|accessdate=2006-04-05}}</ref>

Additionally, male [[cane toad]]s have been documented (in [[Cane Toads: An Unnatural History]]) engaging in copulation with dead toads and inanimate objects.