Male Monkeys “Pay” For Sex

Hey Kaka –
You can’t do that to god, because god does not exist:

I’m baffled that they have used the metaphor of “paying” for sex as if it was a monetary transaction. You could just as easily (or more easily) say that monkeys relax their partner or get them in the mood by grooming them.

Why the push to make monkeys look like prostitutes when that is one (far fetched) way of looking at it?

sam Says: “You could just as easily (or more easily) say that monkeys relax their partner or get them in the mood by grooming them.”

- If you consider it to be merely foreplay, why would less foreplay be necessary in the presence of competition? – “If there were several females in the area, the cost of buying sex would drop dramatically…”

Are they closet homosexuals turned on by the presence of other females? I suppose you could test that hypothesis by testing for physiological markers indicating stimulation. Frankly, I find their explanation more plausible though.

My wife and I were at the Albuquerque Zoo, and saw two roadrunners having sex in a cage. The interesting thing was that the male had a mouse in its beak. When they were done, he dropped the mouse, which was taken by the female. I had never seen anything like that before, and we were both amused by the sight.