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Ooh-Ooh-Baby: Why Monkeys Are Screamers

by Jordan Yerman | December 19, 2007 at 09:25 am

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A burning question finally answered... but when they counted thrusts, did they record the acts and count off video playback, or was a white-coated scientist standing there with a clicker, counting in real-time?

Female monkeys may shout during sex to help their male partners climax, research now reveals.

Without these yells, male Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) almost never ejaculated, scientists found.
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To investigate the purpose behind these calls, scientists at the German Primate Center in Göttingen focused on Barbary macaques for two years in a nature reserve in Gibraltar.

They studied this for two years. If I ever get fired from NowPublic (for posting too many monkey articles), I'm totally going into research.

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Jordan Yerman

at 13:24 on December 19th, 2007

Updae: the macaques could have done the counting themselves.

Karen Hatter

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at 13:39 on December 19th, 2007

Jordan, you're to be commended for your diligence on this topic but, are you SURE you'd go into research, based on this type of work? I don't even want to know how those folks determined that, ahem, the act, was completed. However they did it, way too much info about these monkeys and to what end? I guess I'll have to get a copy of that journal for more complete answers!