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Female baboons may boast during sex
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Female baboons scream more if they are having sex with high ranking
males.
Researchers tape recorded the screams before, during and after
matings on more than 550 different occasions as well as their
own screams while masterbating over the screams of the female
baboons.
Animal experts think the females may be 'boasting' about their
partner's rank or even his ability or lack there of.
Another reason might be that the female is trying to avoid being
harassed by other suitors while she is mating with a choice slab
of man beef.
However, New Scientist reports it may simply be that longer, more
dominant males are better at it than smaller, shorter ones. Monkeys,
we mean...
To try to find out why, Stuart Semple, of the Institute of Zoology in
London, analysed the acoustics of seven female yellow baboon calls in
Kenya. Then set to work, pretending to be a female baboon and attracting
suitors. Stuarts work met with surprising results. He is currently
in intensive care in Oregon and is under the watchful eye of several
famous proctologists.
His team found that the grunts are faster and more vigorous the closer a
female is to something called an orgasm, something which apparently females
of our species don't experience.
This may incite competition among the males so she is more likely to
mate with the highest-ranking "members".
The study is published in the American Journal of Primatology and
reported in New Scientist.
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