Gay sex with monkey

He and the analysts found that the same-sex behaviors of the macaques were both repeatable and heritable — meaning the monkeys copycatted the intercourse they observed and, in addition, performed the act based on their genetic predisposition.

The male monkeys who had sex with each other often backed up their partner in fights, the researchers reported. Same-sex monkeying around is all the rage among the rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago, a acre island off the coast of Puerto Rico, per a July study.

You are viewing 1 of 5 images Previous Image Next Image. They did have sex with females, too. They, too, discovered that the male-on-male romps could produce reproductive benefits among the collection of mostly secluded monkeys. InandSavolainen and his team closely observed the social and mounting behaviors of the rhesus macaques — descendants of apes that were transported to the tiny island from India for remote observations back in Savolainen notes that the rhesus macaques shared a common ancestor with humans approximately 25 million years ago, per the study.

Life Sex between two males is extremely common in wild macaque monkeys Almost three-quarters of male macaques observed by scientists mounted other males, and the behaviour may help to strengthen. Same-sex behaviors in macaques were found to both copycat the intercourse they observed and, in addition, perform the act based on their genetic predisposition.

In the case of the macaques, however, researchers found that the same-sex dalliance were mostly rooted in social perks — such as improved evolutionary fitness — rather than romance. In fact, the researchers found that the bisexual macaques had more offspring than their heterosexual counterparts.

Moreover, these male monkeys weren't strictly homosexual. These monkeys are going bananas on one another.

Ina year-old tortoise named Jonathan was discovered to be enamored with his male lovera tortoise known as Frederic.