'Monstrous' in nature: Japanese monkeys do 'that' with ... deer

Nature still has a lot of surprises, but indeed this case is . exhausted.

In the early months of 2017, there was a strange scene that happened at Yakushima Island in Japan. At that time, tourists saw and recorded a scene of a uncle jumping on the back of a female star deer and starting . sublimating.

As described, the monkey tried to perform mating behavior, and the deer ignored it. Even though it was somewhat sympathetic, when it was licking the feathers after the monkey . tired.

The monkey tried to make mating behavior, and the deer ignored it.

It is known that snow deer and monkeys have symbiotic relationships. Monkeys dropped fruits for deer, and monkeys for monkeys riding on their backs. However, this event was astonishingly surprising, because it was only the second time that mating between two different species occurred (in the case of the Antarctic seals and penguins in the past) ).

Hypotheses have been put in place, most of which assume that the phenomenon only occurs with male monkeys too secretive. However, the most uncertain science is whether this action is a common behavior in monkey society. And to test this, scientists from the University of Lethbridge, Canada conducted a study of a group of monkeys living in the Minoo Mountains, located in northern Osaka, Japan.

As a result, they found strange behavior between monkeys and deer that had been recorded since 2014. The only difference is that it was a female monkey, too "young" to be kept by the monkeys. Frustrated, she jumped on a deer, and also .

Within the next 2 months of observation, up to 5 female monkeys tried to jump on deer's back to do " sex " , a total of 258 times. The methods of female and male monkeys are the same: rub the genitals on the back of deer until . tired.

The monkey solves physiology with deer very naturally .

According to Noëlle Gunst, the author of the study, this group of monkeys was selected as a reason. The composition of the group includes a lot of immature female monkeys, and this animal has been recorded with homosexual relationships when no monkeys have eyes. Gunst believes that they will help the group get the answer.

Whether homosexual or other species, both behaviors occur only during the breeding season. Gunst thinks that fully developed monkey "girls" to really turn into "female" monkeys will do this together as a way to practice. However, the word, they turn objects into deer from a bad time.

In addition, it is interesting to note that only the adult male deer leave them alone to do so , and the young deer often run away or knock them down right away.

Gunst said the problem was the " monkey " phenomenon with the deer that only happened a few years ago, and now it has become a really popular phenomenon. According to Gunst, it is likely that this behavior has been transmitted through the next generation. Monkey saw the older monkeys solve the physiological problem with deer and learned, so as to form a "strange" behavior for Japanese snow monkeys.