The BBC is reporting on research that Chips may actually be trading meat (valued for it’s protein) for sex:
“What’s amazing is that if a male shares with a particular female, he doubles the number of times he copulates with her, which is likely to increase the probability of fertilizing that female.”
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January 9, 2008 – 10:30 am
From Time:
According to the paper, “Payment for Sex in a Macaque Mating Market,” published in the December issue of Animal Behavior, males in a group of about 50 long-tailed macaques in Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia, traded grooming services for sex with females…
Research about monkey pimps is still ongoing.
