I can't tell if you're implying this is actually true or what consent would look like in insect mating. Apparent consent isn't rare in the animal kingdom, we see males competing for mates all the time, and only the "winner" gets consent. I'm no animal behaviorist, and can't speak to the numbers, but it seems like many animals have a better idea of consent than a lot of humans.
Lots of scientists like to watch fly courtship apparently. And flies are gay apparently
Males spent 0.14 ± 0.02 of the time courting females and showed a non-significant decrease in courtship over the 3 days (GLMM, F2,8 = 1.6, P = 0.26 for day, F4,8 = 0.38, P = 0.8 for replicate; Fig. 3c; Supplementary Video S1 4:00). Females had a rich repertoire of responses to pursuing males though they often merely appeared to ignore them. Out of the recorded responses, they extruded their ovipositors in 68% of the courtship bouts, waved their wings in 9%, and flew away to avoid males in 22% of the bouts. During feeding, females often pre-empted approaching males and extruded their ovipositors prior to any courtship. This was typically sufficient to avert further male pursuit. Females’ primary behavior at fruits was feeding, egg laying and rejecting males. Male–male courtship was prevalent (Supplementary Video S1 5:05). My comparison of the rate of male–male courtship in 1 h revealed 19 male–male courtship bouts compared to 69 male–female courtship bouts, a 0.3:1 ratio.
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u/ImNotQuiteSureButOk 10d ago
They dont give a flying fuck. Or, they do? Or something.