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Most sexually pure animal
Animals have been assigned, rightly or wrongly, a variety of sexual and other predispositions.
Snakes were
thought to be singularly lecherous, as were baboons and other apes. Various creatures have
been granted a
singular moral rectitude - for no obvious reason. The elephant ranked high among the "good"
animals. Thus Pliny
credited the pachyderm with every possible virtue: sense of honour, righteousness,
conscientiousness, and above
all a distinct sense of shame: "Out of shame elephants copulate only in hidden places...
Afterwards they bathe in
a river. Nor is there any adultery among them, nor cruel battles for the females." Mediaeval
writers embellished
the legend with further details. Albertus Magnus declared that the elephant had no sexual
instinct, but conceived
and bore in all innocence. In the fourteenth-century one of the first popular zoologists, Konrad
von Megenberg,
compared the frivolous morals of those animals which "live for their lust without divine
worship" with the
sobriety of the elephants who copulate only to generate offspring and who after achieving this
purpose "do not
touch the female for a space of three years."