updating at the office, because 6:39am is a godforsaken time to start working...
makes me think about the many carrots i've been eating...
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oh look, something mundane yet oddly interesting... arhmmmm...
Study: Monkeys 'pay' for sex by grooming
Enlarge By Shuji Kajiyama, AP file
Japanese Macaque monkeys groom each other, sitting in a hot spring in the snow at Jigokudani Wild Monkey Park in Yamanouchi, Japan in January 2004. Male macaque monkeys pay for sex by grooming females, according to a recent study that suggests the primates may treat sex as a commodity.
By Gillian Wong, Associated Press
SINGAPORE - Male macaque monkeys pay for sex by grooming females, according to a recent study that suggests the primates may treat sex as a commodity.
"In primate societies, grooming is the underlying fabric of it all," Dr. Michael Gumert, a primatologist at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, said in a telephone interview Saturday.
"It's a sign of friendship and family, and it's also something that can be exchanged for sexual services," Gumert said.
Gumert's findings, reported in New Scientist last week, resulted from a 20-month observation of about 50 long-tailed macaques in a reserve in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Gumert found after a male grooms a female, the likelihood that she will engage in sexual activity with the male was about three times more than if the grooming had not occurred.
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Uhhh okay, i've got a Denman (?) hairbrush at home, some curlers, and a few nail cutters from singapore...
Would anybody want me to do their hair and nails? *wink*
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oh look, something mundane yet oddly interesting... arhmmmm...
Study: Monkeys 'pay' for sex by grooming
Enlarge By Shuji Kajiyama, AP file
Japanese Macaque monkeys groom each other, sitting in a hot spring in the snow at Jigokudani Wild Monkey Park in Yamanouchi, Japan in January 2004. Male macaque monkeys pay for sex by grooming females, according to a recent study that suggests the primates may treat sex as a commodity.
By Gillian Wong, Associated Press
SINGAPORE - Male macaque monkeys pay for sex by grooming females, according to a recent study that suggests the primates may treat sex as a commodity.
"In primate societies, grooming is the underlying fabric of it all," Dr. Michael Gumert, a primatologist at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, said in a telephone interview Saturday.
"It's a sign of friendship and family, and it's also something that can be exchanged for sexual services," Gumert said.
Gumert's findings, reported in New Scientist last week, resulted from a 20-month observation of about 50 long-tailed macaques in a reserve in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Gumert found after a male grooms a female, the likelihood that she will engage in sexual activity with the male was about three times more than if the grooming had not occurred.
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Uhhh okay, i've got a Denman (?) hairbrush at home, some curlers, and a few nail cutters from singapore...
Would anybody want me to do their hair and nails? *wink*