The deer get something out of the deal as well, though it doesn’t seem to be quite as sensuous. So we were quite lucky, because I think we witnessed the start of it,” study author Noëlle Gunst-Leca of the University of Lethbridge told PopSci. “We first witnessed this behavior in 2014, and the locals who interact with this population on a daily basis had never noticed it before then.
They think it could be the start of a new social trend, with young macaques females-who are known to mount one another in a sexual fashion-gradually picking up the idea that sika stags can provide release. It would be kind of adorable if monkeys were just hitching rides on the back of their long-legged neighbors (which they sometimes do), but researchers say they’ve determined this ritual is sexual in nature. A recent study in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior highlights a newly-discovered instance of interspecies intercourse in central Japan: apparently, adolescent female Japanese macaques have taken to mounting sika deer. And sometimes they happen between totally different species. Scientists even caught brown bears engaging in oral sex.Įven if you’re uncomfortable with the idea, there are a lot of animal sexual shenanigans in the world. There are gay creatures all over the animal kingdom. Bonobos practically build their (peaceful and matriarchal) society on the exchange of sexual favors.
We’re not the only species that enjoys sex as more than a means to an evolutionary end. There are so, so many ways in which consenting adults can conspire to get freaky without making babies. Most humans don’t expect all sex to be procreative.
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