`  ::I think that I've been mostly off-wiki for most of the last day, including being away from any Internet connection for almost all of the last eight hours.   ::Do (for example) veterinary textbooks really talk about animals having ``sexual intercourse`` (a bit of a euphemism, by the way; ``intercourse`` means something like ``transaction`` or ``interaction``, and ``sexual intercourse`` was meant to be a genteel and vague substitute for more direct terms like rutting) rather than ``copulating`` or ``mating``?  That seems unlikely to me.  IMO ``sexual intercourse`` is used exclusively to describe human copulation (or nearly exclusively:  if we're comparing humans to non-humans, we might well use the 'human' term for all).  When describing non-humans, we're often more direct. ::I have no objection to having separate articles about human and non-human copulation, for WP:SIZE reasons if nothing else.   `