Baboons like to stalk sex

The male baboons eavesdrop on other couples who love each other to look at the " cheating " opportunity. If a couple quarrels or leaves, even for a moment, the guy snooping around will immediately jump in to get involved with his children.

Baboons when " love " create a lot of horror sounds. The male growled and the children screamed bitterly.

"For male monkeys, lovemaking cries are the most interesting kind of sound because it comes from children and obviously involves pleasure," study author Catherine Crockford at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychology, America, said. She said that eavesdropping sometimes provides an opportunity for sex for males, because the dominant males often occupy " monopoly " of noble girls.

Baboons every time flirting with her lasts a few hours to a week. During this time of love, the male will follow her and watch for the other guys to approach. When the couple starts falling in love and screaming loudly, eavesdropping males will have to decipher the cry to know who is doing what to whom.

Crockford and colleagues studied baboons at the Moremi Game Reserve in Boswana. Researchers observed low-lying males and waited until they were engrossed in their work, such as resting, gnawing on fruits. Then they turned on the speaker to make a male growl and the screams of the children when mating from another speaker a few kilometers away. Normally when the relationship ends, the children continue to shout because the body is swollen due to ovulation, the speaker will imitate this sound after the couple splits.

The sound made the males immediately abandon their work and glued their eyes towards the loudspeaker that emitted the sound of their children.

In another experiment, the animals heard the lonely growl of the male and the mating cry of the children. The eavesdroppers are less bothered because they know that there is a male around here. The eavesdropper also ignored the cries when they knew that the engagement had ended a few hours ago.

Crockford believes that research shows that baboons can categorize homosexuals based on rank, identify relationships, and understand the cry that is aimed at them or others."Then they combine this information with experience to conjecture the possible behavior of a fellow , " Crockford said.

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