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Male Monkeys 'Pay' Females for Sex, Study Finds
fox news ^ | 1/3/2007 | fox news

Posted on 01/03/2008 7:26:54 AM PST by tobyhill

Mating may be a natural instinct, but monkey business doesn't come free for male macaques who have to "pay" females for their affections, the AFP reported Wednesday.

According to the report, a study of the primates conducted by Michael Gumert of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore found that the male monkeys must first groom the female before she will permit sex. The males use grooming as a form of currency to buy sex from the female, the study found.

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To: tobyhill

Humans, in English,call it “petting” and I don’t think it is normally classed as “payment.”


61 posted on 01/03/2008 8:18:41 AM PST by arthurus (Better to fight them OVER THERE than to have to fight them OVER HERE!)
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To: DeFault User
At least you don't have to pick the fleas off your date.

Don't know about that I haven't see his date. :^)

62 posted on 01/03/2008 8:21:20 AM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: BlazingArizona
“Another blonde hair! Been doing some more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp again!”

LOL! Is that from The Far Side?

63 posted on 01/03/2008 8:23:58 AM PST by Charles Martel (The Tree of Liberty thirsts.)
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To: Bob
How the heck do these macaques find any time to eat anything? They've got to keep up their strength somehow.

Well, according to National Geographic Television, the males eat the fleas and lice they groom off the female. That must be ^some^ kind of sustenenace, eh?

64 posted on 01/03/2008 8:24:56 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel
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To: Fishtalk

Hmmmm... I have to do that too.


65 posted on 01/03/2008 8:27:28 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Vision

“Affection” is not understood by scientists so other explanations are proved for grant money. These fellows are paid to produce this stuff. Monkey dudes pick lice from their ladies’ fur to pay for ses. Liberals and government pay money (grants) to scientists to produce something worth a pile of picked-over lice.


66 posted on 01/03/2008 8:27:36 AM PST by arthurus (Better to fight them OVER THERE than to have to fight them OVER HERE!)
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To: Gorzaloon
Not sure if I am young enough to survive better.

"The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised!"

- (shamelessly swiped from Futurama).

67 posted on 01/03/2008 8:27:37 AM PST by Charles Martel (The Tree of Liberty thirsts.)
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To: Vision

“Affection” is not understood by scientists so other explanations are proved for grant money. These fellows are paid to produce this stuff. Monkey dudes pick lice from their ladies’ fur to pay for ses. Liberals and government pay money (grants) to scientists to produce something worth a pile of picked-over lice.


68 posted on 01/03/2008 8:27:37 AM PST by arthurus (Better to fight them OVER THERE than to have to fight them OVER HERE!)
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To: tobyhill
If I single I would try this,”hey babe, can I groom you?”.

Maybe not like that, but there is good opener in there.

69 posted on 01/03/2008 8:32:23 AM PST by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: tobyhill
Male monkey to female monkey, after two hours....
What .... still not enough lice?

I've pulled and pulled and pulled them lice...dear.
Take me home!

70 posted on 01/03/2008 8:40:00 AM PST by From One - Many (Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk. I Will Be Voting for Mr. Duncan Hunter, fellow FReepers.)
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To: tobyhill

Um, How about “Male monkeys treat females nice for sex” as a headline? Nope, all corners of academia have to push the prostitution-neofeminist model of sexuality on us.


71 posted on 01/03/2008 8:41:31 AM PST by dangus
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To: arbooz
Prostitutin' monkeys.

How much tax money did this "study" cost?

72 posted on 01/03/2008 8:41:40 AM PST by onedoug
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To: itsamelman

Male cardinals (the bird, not the clerics— as far as I know) do a similar thing. They get food and feed it to the female. I have seen this at my birdfeeders at home. This is part of the courtship ritual. Whether this should be called “payment” or simply showing one’s interest remains to be argued, as to cardinals, monkeys and humans. And if grooming your girlfriend is payment, then I guess opening the door for her, bringing flowers or candy, even telling her how pretty she is are all forms of “payment.” I don’t think my wife is going to be too pleased to learn that she is a whore... j/k... ducking.


73 posted on 01/03/2008 8:41:56 AM PST by NCLaw441
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To: onedoug
How much tax money did this "study" cost?

Couple of tickets to the zoo, a cooler, some lawn chairs, a clipboard, pens, paper. Well, thrown in a laptop and a video camera too. Hm, maybe a supervisor back at the office, plus a grant coordinator to get the money lined up. Might need a statistician to count those "events". Oh, and office space. Might as well add in a few PCs for the supervisor, grant coordinator, and statistician. And one of those cool multifunction copiers that are the size of a car. We'll need some swag, too, stuff like coffee cups, pens, that sort of thing. Oh, I forgot, we need a technical writer to actually write the paper and get it published in some journal of natural something something somewhere. Now if we can somehow link the monkey events to global warming, we'll be flush with grant $ for decades!

74 posted on 01/03/2008 8:50:45 AM PST by kittycatonline.com
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To: Polybius

“Johns don’t pay prostitutes for sex, they pay them to leave.”
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I’m grinning. That’s very good.


76 posted on 01/03/2008 9:06:19 AM PST by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: tobyhill

next they will want to be cuddled and talked to afterwards.


77 posted on 01/03/2008 9:08:43 AM PST by lakeman
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To: tobyhill

My first thought as I read the headline:
The ‘researchers” aren’t getting enough sex of their own.


78 posted on 01/03/2008 9:16:27 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Bob

What a friggin existence....scarfing down lice and getting busy sun-up to sun-down. With the occasional avoidance of predators, drinks of water, eating more solid food and toilitries.

Maybe slapping around the kids occasionally.


79 posted on 01/03/2008 9:23:01 AM PST by tpanther
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To: Vaquero
sounds more like foreplay than payment

Australian Foreplay....."Got yer boots off , Alice?"

80 posted on 01/03/2008 9:29:17 AM PST by Wil H
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