Do monkeys pay for sex

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:48:28 GMT

clipped by: Brimstone
clipper's remarks: This is also evident in penguins. The penguins nest is generally made up of pretty stones and twigs. The female penguin leaves her nest in seek of nicer stones that other male penguins have collected. She initiates sex, and receives these pretty stones as payment, sometimes she does not even have to perform the act to get payment, just show interest.

I saw this on a documentary, if anyone knows of an article based on this please provide a link.

Clip Source: www.time.com

A group of Long-tailed Macaques

It turns out that one of humanity's oldest professions may be even older than we thought

In a recent study of macaque monkeys in Indonesia, researchers found that male primates "paid" for sexual access to females

and that the going rate for such access dwindled as the number of available females went up

males in a group of about 50 long-tailed macaques in Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia, traded grooming services for sex with females; researchers, who studied the monkeys for some 20 months, found that males offered their payment up-front, as a kind of pre-sex ritual

It worked

After the females were groomed by male partners, female sexual activity more than doubled, from an average of 1.5 times an hour to 3.5 times

The study also showed that the number of minutes that males spent grooming hinged on the number of females available at the time

The better a male's odds of getting lucky, the less nit-picking time the females received

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Do monkeys pay for sex