January 03, 2008
According to a study into our primate cousins which found that male macaques pay for intercourse by using grooming as a currency.
[...] Michael Gumert of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore made the discovery in a 20-month investigation into 50 long-tailed macaques in Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia, New Scientist reports on Saturday.
[...] If there were several females in the area, the cost of buying sex would drop dramatically -- a male could "buy" a female for just eight minutes of nit-picking.[...]
Kinda makes me glad I'm not a female Macaque!
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Original Article
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The abstract at least is free - your mileage to the original article may vary.
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a male could "buy" a female for just eight minutes of nit-picking ...just like in town.
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Well, that explains it then. With no other women in the house, Mrs. Frogs gets a much longer backrub than otherwise... god, she has me over a barrel and there's nothing I can do about it. And she knows it. Man, she's sneaky. Have to stop letting her watch the Discovery Channel or hide my biology books or something if I ever want to gain the upper hand again.
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I wonder what the lady macaques would think about a battery-operated hairbrush.
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In other macaque news: Monkeys Teach Their Babies How to Floss… with Human Hair