Cost of coitus: Male monkeys pay for sex: "Selling sex is said to be humankind's oldest profession but it may have deep evolutionary roots, according to a study into our primate cousins which found that male macaques pay for intercourse by using grooming as a currency.
Michael Gumert of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore made the discovery in a 20-month investigation into 50 long-tailed macaques in Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia, New Scientist reports on Saturday.
On average, females had sex 1.5 times per hour.
But this rate jumped to 3.5 times per hour immediately after the female had been groomed by a male -- and her partner of choice was likely to be the hunky monkey that did the grooming."
3 comments:
They call it soliciting prostitution. I call it foreplay.
Perhaps for some a distinction without a difference.
I know for a fact this works. I picked fleas out of a monkey's hair once, and sure enough, I got lucky.
Don't we all pay, eventually? If it isn't a dinner it's a house.
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