Baboons give sex treats
Written by: loullamae
“Chacma baboons have a despotic social structure in which a single alpha male can almost completely monopolise mating opportunities by guarding females during their oestrus periods. Yet Barrett found that subordinate males in the De Hoop troop fathered 23 of 64 offspring during that time.
Closer analysis showed that this was not because the alpha male was too tired, too busy, or too inexperienced to guard the females. Instead, he appeared to be willingly ceding copulations to subordinate males.”
POPBITCH BABOON SEX FACT:
To initiate sex a female baboon shows a male her bits in a doggy style fashion, while submissive males do the same thing. What’s more the dominant male baboon will dry hump a submissive male to show him who’s boss.
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