A new paper, titled ?Interspecies sexual behaviour between a male Japanese macaque and female sika deer?, describes what is thought to be one of the first ever recorded instances of ?reproductive interference? between two very different animals.
Sex between animals of different kinds has been reported across a wide range of the animal kingdom.
Japanese macaques have in the past been known to ride along on deer. But the researchers say that the monkey in the new study ?showed clear sexual behaviour towards several female deer?. Some of those deer tried to escape ? but others apparently consented to the behaviour and ?accepted the mount?, the researchers write in the journal Primates.
The researchers wrote that one deer "seemed to accept to be ridden by the male macaque", and that it was apparently licking sperm that had been deposited on its back by the monkey. Another deer refused the mount and threw the macaque off its back.
A new paper, titled ?Interspecies sexual behaviour between a male Japanese macaque and female sika deer?, describes what is thought to be one of the first ever recorded instances of ?reproductive interference? between two very different animals.
Sex between animals of different kinds has been reported across a wide range of the animal kingdom.
Japanese macaques have in the past been known to ride along on deer. But the researchers say that the monkey in the new study ?showed clear sexual behaviour towards several female deer?. Some of those deer tried to escape ? but others apparently consented to the behaviour and ?accepted the mount?, the researchers write in the journal Primates.
The researchers wrote that one deer "seemed to accept to be ridden by the male macaque", and that it was apparently licking sperm that had been deposited on its back by the monkey. Another deer refused the mount and threw the macaque off its back.
Anyone that's ever filmed an interracial gangbang in Los Angeles could have saved these researchers a lot of trouble.
