TIL: Male Rhesus Macaques Pay To Watch Porn
Ok, ok, I admit it! The title is a bit misleading. They don't pay to watch porn, or at least the hardcore kind.
But, they probably would as in one experiment they glad-fully paid to just view the faces and bottoms of " high-status " females... Which reminds of my early years on the internet, when all I had was a 56k modem. Those were the days! Slow internet and a lack of free porn sites made you appreciate the smalls things in life! Kids get everything so easy these days!
But we are not here to talk about my early days on the internet! Not that much has changed since...
We are here to talk about a really cool experiment by Michael Platt and Robert Deaner from the Duke University, where they explored the viewing habits of male rhesus monkeys.
During the test, the monkeys had the option to look in one out of two directions. If a monkey looked to one direction it would get a squirt of cherry juice. But if it looked to the other, it would get a slightly larger or smaller squirt along with an image to look at.
In the latter case, the size of the squirt varied in order to establish a method of "payment". Images shown included:
- The ass of a female Macaque
- Faces of higher-status monkeys from both sexes, with a smaller squirt
- Faces of lower-status monkeys from both sexe,s with a more generous squirt
And surprise surprise! The male Macaques acted like pigs and were willing to pay to have a look at all those juicy bottoms. But let's be honest, who can resist this?
The monkeys were shown a similar looking booty (credit, CC-BY)
The results were quite consistent. The male monkeys were willing to pay something extra, again and again to look at that hot booty! They also seemed to have a preference for high status monkeys, although they didn't seem to have a clear preference for sex. And of course, they required payment to view low-ranking monkeys'!
On a serious note, the study did provide some insight on the behavior of rhesus macaques:
This study demonstrates that monkeys assess visual information by its social value and provides the first experimental evidence that they spontaneously discriminate between images of others based on the social rank or classification of individuals. [source]
Ok, that was a fun and interesting post. But not as funny as this clumsy seal:
And definitely not as interesting as this assassin bug that wears its victims' carcasses as camouflage:
Oh, yeah. Here's a link to the paper if you want to learn more. No academic access required :)
Where do you find all those weird things...?
Very strange
Strange things find me, I swear!
Yeah, I know! I guess they cared more about the social status than the actual sex. Or maybe they can't make between the two. Or maybe they are bisexual XD
I'll give you a thumbs up for this one bro, weirdest shit I read since you posted about the masturbating squirrels 😂.
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The Clarity and Completeness owl was not awarded since it is important to take into account that the experiment only concerns a test group of 4 male monkeys of a colony of 12. In addition this research was conducted in 2005 Source.
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4/6? Not bad! This one was a quicky, took me about and hour ^_^
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You did a good job in that hour :) okok thanks
my God... imagine seeing a human walking around with a bunch of human corpses attached to its body, slapping and stabbing people.
fucking nightmare material. Thanks!
A ninja covered by the bodies of its enemies! That would be a sight to behold.😂😂😂
@trumpman you will always surprise me I think ... I laughed with the story of the monkeys, then the videos of the elephant seal and this strange creature that ends up looking like an alien by dint of on the back the corpses of her victims (maybe she needs to feel bigger and stronger?)
No, it's for camouflage so that it can attacks undetected! The smell of the ants cover its smell!
Haha! Looks like ass is even a thing for animals.
But then again aren't we all.
Ass is life!
That had me giggling as i read through it man. I'll tell you what made me laugh is that I heard about a blood type RH+ that come from the Rhesus monkey, some humans have RH+ blood.
Now it all makes sense to me. Hahaha.
Funny man!
So that monkey blood can used on humans for transfusions or something? Can I have a link for that :O
Maybe I should have been a bit more specific, it's not a blood type but a blood group. The RH+ refers to a protein in the blood that was genetically inherited from the Rhesus. Sorry dude, biology isn't my field haha.
Heres a wiki link anyway:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rh_blood_group_system
The title pulled me in but I am not disappointed at what I find here. It is an interesting writing and I got stuck with its reading from the beginning to its end. It is really an amusing one.
Glad you enjoyed it my friend :D
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I love your blog, it's really interesting and the video with the elephant seal made me laugh.. haha thanks for cheering me up @trumpman!
Hehe, glad I made you laugh. It's what I am trying to do with my posts :D