LoneWolf
09 Apr 2009, 04:24 AM
Males do most of the hunting, but they don't eat their spoils alone - often, they will share the fresh meat with females, even those who are unrelated to them. Some scientists have suggested that this apparently selfless act is a trade - the males are giving up their nutritious catch in exchange for sex.
Cristina Gomes and Christophe Boesch from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have found new evidence to support this idea. They spent four years in the Tai National Park in Cote d'Ivoire watching a group of 49 chimps, including 5 adult males and 14 females. They recorded a huge amount of data on the group's behaviour, and across 3,000 hours of observation, they were privy to 262 bouts of chimp sex.
Link (http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/04/male_chimps_trade_meat_for_sex.php?id=115929)
Ok, maybe it isn’t whoremongering. But how could I resist that title? Maybe it is more akin to taking a lady out to a nice restaurant in the hopes of getting some sweet, sweet lovin’ at the end of the evening. :)
Cristina Gomes and Christophe Boesch from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have found new evidence to support this idea. They spent four years in the Tai National Park in Cote d'Ivoire watching a group of 49 chimps, including 5 adult males and 14 females. They recorded a huge amount of data on the group's behaviour, and across 3,000 hours of observation, they were privy to 262 bouts of chimp sex.
Link (http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/04/male_chimps_trade_meat_for_sex.php?id=115929)
Ok, maybe it isn’t whoremongering. But how could I resist that title? Maybe it is more akin to taking a lady out to a nice restaurant in the hopes of getting some sweet, sweet lovin’ at the end of the evening. :)