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Monkey Business!!
Jan 5, 2008 | 10:15 AM
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Women could have told these guys that without the study!
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SINGAPORE(AP) 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.

And as with other commodities, the value of sex is affected by supply and demand factors: A male would spend more time grooming a female if there were fewer females in the vicinity.

"And when the female supply is higher, the male spends less time on grooming ... The mating actually becomes cheaper depending on the market," Gumert said.
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SingingBlues read my blog
Jan 5, 2008 | 10:39 AM

I'm on the market so bring on the grooming supplies!!!!! lol
babysister138 read my blog view my photos
Jan 5, 2008 | 10:51 AM

LMAO!!!!!!!
ME too!
LesleyAnne read my blog view my photos
Jan 5, 2008 | 11:16 AM

Lmao, now that is funny.
furbie read my blog view my photos
Jan 5, 2008 | 12:39 PM

Babysister - quit monkeying around ! I'm not eating fleas off me old woman for no amount of sex !!!
Onyx read my blog view my photos
Jan 5, 2008 | 2:02 PM

Hahahahaha!
suecoop read my blog
Jan 5, 2008 | 2:13 PM

Can we count a nice massage as grooming? I mean, it is for dry skin right? So....it must be grooming!
terrellmom read my blog view my photos
Jan 5, 2008 | 3:37 PM

sounds like male humans.
ChatterBug read my blog
Jan 5, 2008 | 6:11 PM

foreplay?
UCantHandleThisTruth read my blog
Jan 5, 2008 | 7:44 PM

also, male monkeys are less likely to do cage cleanup unless they get that sex
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I am considered a Senior, by A.A.R.P. Have traveled all over this country and lots of Europe. Raised 4 kids with no help from the Gov't. Love dogs and cats and horses, and all creatures, great and small I try to be nice to A/all Lived through the 50's and 60's, and survived. Give me a good book, and quiet music, and I am happy. mmeshell2@tx.rr.com

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