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'A first-year Lincoln student commented: “Although it may seem that these animals have more raunchy action that us with their ‘sexual networks’, the rumours circulating about the Oxford J.R.R Tolkein Society certainly suggest otherwise. Have you actually seen one of their so-called ‘dramatic re-enactments’? I didn’t think so.” '

http://oxfordstudent.com/2013/01/31/animals-in-sex-study/

- wellinghall